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 ST. MICHAEL, 
 
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 CHARLES TOWN, 
 
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 The Province of South Carolina. 
 
 Founded 1752. 
 
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COPYRIGHT 
 
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 GEORGE S. HOLMES, 1887. 
 
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^^^^ST. iMICHAEL^S. 
 
 The first notice we have of anything appertaining to St. 
 Michael's is, in July, 1672,^ when John Culpepper, Surveyor- 
 General, is directed to lay out a Town at Oyster Point, and 
 the site now occupied by St. Michael's, seems to have been 
 reserved for a church, though none was built on it until some 
 years later, when the first St. Philip's was erected. This view 
 of the early laying out of the church-yard is supported by the 
 fact that December 29, 1886,- some workmen while repair- 
 ing the foundations found a coffin just under the first land- 
 ing of the stairway to the south gallery and just inside of 
 the southwest pilaster. This coffin was of red-cedar, and 
 the lid was studded with brass tacks which formed the 
 initials J. O. B. and the figures 1678. 
 
 With the first St. Philip's we have nothing to do, so let 
 us hurry on to June 14, 175 1,3 when an Act of Assembly was 
 passed, directing that " all that part of Charlestown situate 
 and lying to the southward of the middle of Broad Street " 
 is to "be known by the name of the Parish of St. Michael," 
 and a church is to be erected " on or near the place where 
 the old church of the parish of St. Philip Charlestown 
 formerly stood," at a cost to the public of not more than 
 ^17,000 proclamation money, equal to about $55,000. 
 
 The Hon. Charles Pinckney, Alexander Vander Bussen, 
 Ed. Fenwick, Wm. Bull, Jr., Andrew Rutledge, Isaac 
 Mazyck, Benj. Smith, Jordan Roche and James Irving, 
 were appointed Commissioners to carry out the Act, and the 
 South Carolina Gazette of Februrary 22, 1752, states that 
 "the Commissioners for building the Church of St. Michael 
 in this Town, having waited on His Excellency the Governor 
 (Glen. Ed.) to desire that he would be pleased to lay the 
 first Stone, on Monday last (February 17, 1752, Ed.), His 
 Excellency, attended by several of His Majesty's Honorable 
 Council, with the Commissioners and other Gentlemen, was 
 pleased to proceed to the Spot and lay the same, accord- 
 
 ^Rivers, 130. ■^Charleston News and Courier, December 30, 1886. 
 ■* Statutes VII, 79. 
 
4 Appendix to ) 'car Inwk. 
 
 ingly, and thereon a Sum of Money; a Stone was then laid 
 by each of the Gentlemen, who attended His Excellency, 
 followed by the loud Acclamations of a Numerous Concourse 
 of people, that had assembled to see the Ceremony ; after 
 which the Company proceeded to Mr. Gordon's, where a 
 handsome Entertainment was provided by the Com- 
 missioners.' 
 
 Dinner over, His Majesty's health was drank, followed by 
 a Discharge of the Cannon at Granville's Bastion ; then the 
 Healths of all the Royal Family and other loyal Toasts ; and 
 the Day was concluded with peculiar Pleasure and Satisfac- 
 tion. This Church will be built on the Plan of one of Mr. 
 Gibson's Designs; and 'tis tho't will exhibit a fine Piece of 
 Architecture when compleated. The Steeple being designed 
 much larger than that of St. Philip's, will have a fine set of 
 Bells." 
 
 In the above extract there is no mention of the where- 
 abouts of " the first stone," but in an old memorandum 
 book belonging to the church, it is stated that "this day 
 the Gov'r laid the first stone at the So. East Corner of 
 the Church." There is no date, but a little above is an 
 item dated February 17, and just after one dated February 
 29, 1752. While the repairs of the church, after the earth- 
 quake, were going on, an effort was made to find this stone, 
 and at the southeast corner of the main building, a block of 
 
 ^Goidou's was at the N. E. corner of Broad and Church Streets, and the 
 Church still has the following bill: 
 
 February 17, ij^i.— Thc Coiiiinisnor of the ChurcJL Bill. 
 
 Dinner _^20 ; 0:0 
 
 To Tody I : 10 : o 
 
 " Punch 5: 0:0 
 
 " Beer 5:10:0 
 
 " Wine 5; 5:0 
 
 " Glass Broak 5:0 
 
 " 8 Magnum bonos of Clarret 24 ; 0:0 
 
 61 : 10 : o 
 
 JOHN GORDON. 
 April 13, 17 j2. 
 
 In a different liand is added, " The Comni's agree that the Clerk pay tills 
 acct. 
 
The Paris// ChurcJi of St. Michael. 5 
 
 granite, i8 by 15 by 10}^ inches, was found, but there was 
 no inscription on it, nor record in it — to the intense disap. 
 pointment of all present, of whom the writer was one. 
 
 It will also be noticed that the name of the architect is 
 given as " Gibson"— a name of which we can find no men- 
 tion elsewhere ; but James Gibbs was the designer of St. 
 Martins-in-the-Fields, London, and a legend tells us that 
 our church is a copy of that building. A glance at the 
 pictures of the two shows this to be an error, and one is 
 puzzled to account for the story. If, however, they were 
 planned by the same person, we can see how it arose. Add 
 to this the similarity of Gibbs and Gibson ; the fact that 
 the spires of both churches spring through the roof — a 
 blunder never committed by Sir Christopher Wren — and 
 the farther fact that Gibbs lived till 1754, and, we think, 
 there is little doubt that St. Michael's was the work of 
 Gibbs. This, however, is as each pleases. There is no evi- 
 dence, so far as we can learn, that Sir Christopher Wren was 
 the architect, and the fact that he died in 1723 is against 
 the legend which has some hold on our people. 
 
 After the above was written, the following extract from 
 a letter dated 17661 by a Mr. Woodmason, who went to 
 England from this Province, to be ordained a minister of 
 the Church of England, was brought to our notice : " St. 
 Michael's is a new-built Church, from the Model of that of 
 Greenwich, being truss'd and roofed and no pillars; is 
 eighty feet by sixty, has a tower and steeple one hundred 
 and ninety-six feet high and a ring of eight bells lately 
 hung." This puts the matter in a new light, and inquiries 
 are being made in England to see if there is still such a 
 church in Greenwich. - 
 
 A beginning made, work went on steadily, but not 
 very rapidly, so that we find in the Gazette for Dec. 29, 1758, 
 the following : "Wednesday last (Dec. 27, Ed.) being St. 
 John the Evangelist's Day, the Ancient and Honorable Fra- 
 ternity of Free and Accepted Masons had a grand procession 
 
 ^Address J. J. P. Smith, Esq., in St. Philip's, May 13, 1875. App. r i. 
 -These inquiries have proved that St. Michael's is not a copy of any 
 Church at Greenwich. 
 
6 Aj^pcudix to ] ?(?;- Book. 
 
 from the Lodge Room, at Brother John Gordon's, to St. 
 Michael's Church, where, besides the usual service, an An- 
 them suitable to the Occasion, set to music by Brother 
 Benjamin Yarnold, was sung and played by several masterly 
 Hands, and an excellent Discourse on Universal Love and 
 Benevolence delivered by their Rev. Brother, Mr. 
 Martyn." Mr. Martyn was Rector of St. Andrew's, and is 
 mentioned by Dalcho. 
 
 At the time of this service the church could not have 
 been finished, as the first Vestry was elected on Easter 
 Monday, 1759, and qualified May 25, 1759, taking this oath: 
 
 " We, the Church Wardens and Vestry of the Parish of 
 St. Michael, Charlestown, whose names are hereunder 
 written, do declare that We do Believe there is not any 
 Transubstantiation in the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, 
 or in the Elements of Bread and Wine at or after the Con- 
 secration thereof by any person whatsoever."^ 
 
 On Wednesday, July 18, 1759,^ a letter was written by the 
 Vestry to James Wright, Esq., of London, begging him to 
 "use your Best Offices and Endeavors to Procure or Invite 
 a Minister to come over to be Rector." He was to be " a 
 Middle-aged Man of a Grave Deportment, suitable to his 
 Sacred Office, and of a good, audible Voice, as the Church 
 is Large." The letter continues: "His Sallary is Fixed 
 by Law at One Hundred and Fifty Pounds Proclamation 
 Money, or Seven Hundred and Fifty Pounds Currency, per 
 Annum and a comfortable house." This " sallary" was 
 about p^ii2 sterling. 
 
 There was some trouble in procuring a parson in Eng- 
 land, so on January 9, 1761,^ the Rev. Rob't Cooper, 
 Assistant Minister of St. Philip's, was called, and the first 
 regular service was held by him in the new edifice, Sunday, 
 February i, 1761'* — nearly nine years from the laying of the 
 corner stone — with John Braund as Clerk. Through the 
 courtesy of the Hon. W. A. Pringle, we are able to give 
 the following " entry from the family Bible of Rob't 
 
 'Old Vestry Book, p. 3. ^Qld Vestry Book, p. 3. 
 'Old Vestry Book, 7. 'Old Vestry Book, S. 
 
Tlic Parish Chnrch of St. Michael. 7 
 
 Pringle, Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 
 the Colony of South Carolina": 
 
 " Feb'y i, 1761, — This Day being Sunday, Divine Service 
 was performed for the first time in the New Church of St. 
 Michael, in this Town of Charlestown, by the Rev. Mr. 
 Rob't Cooper, who was invited to be Minister thereof, and 
 preached a Sermon suitable to the occasion to a crowded 
 congregation ; David Deas and myself being the Church 
 Wardens ; and on said occasion all my family went to 
 Church and took possession of my Pew there. No. 29, in 
 said Church."! 
 
 The building just finished was 130 feet long, including 
 the portico, and 60 feet wide ; it was of brick, with a slate 
 roof, but, curiously enough, the porch seems to have been 
 shingled, for in 1774 we find the vestry ordering the porch 
 to be ''7iezv-shingled.'"'~ Later, it was slated like the rest of 
 the roof. 
 
 At the west end of the church, a graceful steeple rises to 
 the height of 186 feet from the ground,^ and at the top is 
 a gilt ball, and above that a vane. The ball is of black 
 cypress, covered with copper, ■* and the wood is as sound as 
 the day it was erected, and, strange to say, was little 
 
 ^See Appendix No. i for List of probable congregation. -Old Vestry Book, 132. 
 •^The following is from tlie Charleston Conner of December 8, 1S35, the 
 measurements having been taken by Mr. Jolin M. Schnierle, in September, 
 1832: 
 
 KKET. INCHES. 
 
 From point of rod to top of vane S 6 
 
 Width of Vane i 9 
 
 From bottom of vane to top of ball 7 8 
 
 From top of ball to eve of roof over pigeon hole 5 5 
 
 Thence to first velt under pigeon hole 6 9 
 
 From first velt to second velt 16 7 
 
 From second velt to eve of steeple roof 8 5 
 
 Thence to floor of balcony 17 7 
 
 Thence to floor of belfry 22 2 
 
 Thence to top of portico roof 48 3 
 
 Thence to pavement 43 2 
 
 Total 186 3 
 
 Sunk during earthquake, Aug. 31, 1886* 8 
 
 Present Height .... 185 7 
 
 The vane is 7 feet, 3_J^ inches long. 
 
 *Mr. John Gourdin, Architect in charge of repairs. 
 'Personal Examination, 
 
8 Appendix to Year Book. 
 
 hurt when it was blown down by the cyclone of August 25, 
 1885, and fell to the street below ; making a spherical depres- 
 sion in the heavy flagstone of the pavement. It had just been 
 restored to its usual place, when the earthquake of August 
 31, 1886, shattered the church, but its stability was not affect- 
 ed, though it is now about 8 inches nearer to the ground, 
 owing to the sinking of the steeple. Most of the woodwork 
 of the interior is of red cedar, and in perfect preservation. 
 
 The cost of the Church was :^55, 535-1 8-9 currency, equal 
 at seven to one in gold, to 132,775.87.' Of this £2\,?>jy 
 currency was subscribed for pews, and ;^3 1,656-1 8-9 cur- 
 rency was granted by the Assembly. Dalcho states these 
 figures to be from the accounts of Samuel Prioleau, Secre- 
 tary to the Commissioners, and they have been to some ex- 
 tent verified by personal examination of what remains of 
 the original documents. Three times the money would not 
 do the work now, but at the time of building, bricks were 
 about three dollars a thousand and lime six cents per 
 bushel, while white bricklayers and mechanics got about $1.40 
 a day, and negroes 70 cents. ^ Part of the lime used is said 
 to have been made from the shells of an immense mound, 
 near Fort Johnson, evidently of Indian origin.^ 
 
 No sooner was the congregation settled in their new 
 church than they began to raise the money for "a Ring of 
 Bells," and on January 6, 1762,'* it was ordered that a sub- 
 scription be opened for that purpose. 
 
 At the next meeting of the Vestry,^ February i8th, 1762, 
 we find the Wardens " acquainting the Vestry that they had 
 received from His Excellency, Governor Boone, a Service of 
 Altar Plate, consisting of Two Flagons, a Chalice and Cover, 
 and a large Dish, which His Excellency had been pleased to 
 present To and For the use of St. Michael's Church, and that 
 they, the Church Wardens, had thereupon Immediately sent 
 their Thanks to His Excellency in behalf of the Vestry and 
 Parishoners. It was resolved and ordered that on each piece 
 of Plate the following words be engraven, viz : The Gift of 
 His Excellency Thomas Boone, Esqr., Governor of this Pro- 
 
 1 Dalcho, p. 187. ^Original Bills. ^Drayton's Carolina, p. 56. 
 tOId Vestry Book, 17. ^Qld Vestry Book, 17. 
 
•:' The Parish ClinrcJi of St. Mkliacl. 9 
 
 vince, To The Church of St. Michael, Charles Town, So. Car- 
 olina, 1762." At the same meeting, thanks are returned 
 for a " Neat Quarto Common Prayer Book," presented by- 
 Richard Lambton, Esqr., a " Neat Folio Bible, one Folio 
 and two Quarto Common Prayer Books, from Jacob Motte, 
 Esqr., Public Treasurer of this Province." 
 
 It may be as well to state here that two silver alms dishes 
 were added by George Somers, Esqr., in 1764; ' a chalice 
 similar to the first, by " Elias Horry, Esqr., Tntendant of 
 this City," as the inscription states, in 1816;- and a silver 
 Christening Basin, by Miss Ann McPherson, in September, 
 1819. This plate was sent to Columbia during the war be- 
 tween the States, and was lost when Sherman burnt that 
 town.^ 
 
 After the war the Vestry advertised for it, but without suc- 
 cess, and their pleasure may be imagined, when on the 17th 
 June, 1867,'^ they received one of the tankards through the 
 generosity of Hon. Alexander W. Bradford, who noticed it 
 m a pawn broker's shop in New York. The cover of the 
 chalice was bought in Ohio a year or two later," but nothing 
 was ever heard of the remainder. 
 
 The plate now consists of the two pieces just described ; 
 a paten inscribed " St. George's, Dorchester, S. C, I755- 
 Presented to St. Michael's Church by Richard Lathers, Esq., 
 Charleston, S. C, April, 1871;" another paten inscribed, 
 " The gift of Henry Middleton, Esq., to St. George's Church, 
 in Dorchester, 1755. Presented to St. Michael's Church by 
 Henry A. Middleton, Esq., Charleston, S. C, April, 1871 ; " 
 a silver alms dish, inscribed, "St. Michael's Church, 
 Charleston, S. C. Glory Be To God In The Highest. 
 Alleluia" — this was a gift of Mr. Eugetie P. Jervey — and 
 two silver chalices inscribed, " St. Michael's Church, 
 Charleston, S. C, 1870." 
 
 Thus in recent times as in the past the church has had many 
 friends, and we must not omit from the list the Hon. 
 Edward Fenwick, who in 1763, <* presented crimson velvet 
 
 iQld Vestry Book, 42. -Dalcho, 188. -^New Vestry Book, 161. 
 
 ■iNevv Vestry Book, 161. Mr. James M.Wilson. "Old Vestry Book, 27. 
 
I o . ippcndix to Year Book. 
 
 coverings and curtains, trimmed with gold lace, for the 
 communion table ; and Jacob Motte, Esq., who a year later 
 furnished it with Damask table-cloths and napkins. ^ 
 
 During its entire existence, St. Michael's has been useful 
 to the public at large, as well as to its own congregation, 
 and so even before its clock and bells were there to serve 
 the citizens ; its yard was used to keep the fire engine in ; 
 as is proved by a resolution of the Vestry of April 26, 1762,- 
 and as late as 1821 we find that the city fire buckets were 
 kept there. ^ 
 
 The original parsonage was in Queen Street, but proving 
 unsuited to its purpose was sold December 10, 1764,^ for 
 ;^3, 300 currency, and September 11, 1765,^ a new glebe was 
 bought for i^2,700 currency;^ and the three story brick 
 house on the west side of Meeting Street, now No. 39, was 
 built; having been finished towards the end of 1767 at a 
 cost of ^4,537-15-0 currency, the outbuildings and v/ell 
 adding ;^762-5-o currency to the bill, besides ^19 " ballance" 
 due on final settlement." This house was sold in 1817, and 
 is now owned by Mr. Jas. M. Wilson. 
 
 The bells and clock reached Charlestown in the ship 
 Little Carpenter^ July 15, 1764,^ and were soon in their 
 present positions, except that the works of the clock were 
 at first above the bells instead of below, as at present. 
 
 The clock was built by Aynsworth Thwayts, of London, 
 and was described in his offer as " a strong 30 Hour Clock, 
 to show the Hour Four Ways, to strike the Hour on the 
 Largest Bell and the quarters on four Bells, as the Royal 
 Exchange, London;'"-' to cost with dial plates, &c., ;^ 194 
 sterling in London. It will be noticed that it is " to show 
 the //<??/r Four Ways " and this is all it showed till 1849, 
 when, with the consent of the Vestry, the City Council added 
 minute hands. The quarters are now struck on tJirec bells, 
 not on four as formerly. The freight both of bells and 
 clock was presented by the owners of the " Little Carpen- 
 
 iQld Vestry Book, 39. -Old Vestry Book, p. 19. '^QXA Vestry Book, 508. 
 ^Old Vestry Book, 51. "'Old Vestry Book, 42. '''Old Vestry Book, 58. 
 'Old Vestry Book, 65. ^.S'. C Gazette, Oct. x, 1764. "Old Vestry Book, 34. 
 
riic Parish Cli/nr/t of Sf. Micliacl. 1 1 
 
 ter,''^ and the putting up cost only a trifle for carpenter's 
 work, the watch-maker who was to take care of the clock 
 directing them without charge. 
 
 The first notice we have found of the bells is in the South 
 Carolina Gazette, for July 26, 1760, where we are informed 
 that "St. Michael's Church being now almost finished, we 
 hear that a subscription is set on foot for purchasing a sett 
 of bells for its steeple, the cost of which will be about 4 or 
 500 £ Sterling ;" but they did not come for four years, ar- 
 riving in the same ship as the clock. They were cast by 
 Lester & Pack, of London, in 1764,2 and are described in 
 founder's offer as "A Peal of 8 bells, the Tenor 18 cwt., the 
 whole will weigh, more or less, 80 cwt., and to cost with 
 clappers, etc., in London, ^581-14-4 Sterling." After the 
 order was sent, the Vestry became alarmed at their weight, 
 many thinking them too heavy for the steeple, and so they 
 sent a request that only six bells be cast ; or that the eight 
 be sold and six others bought. For some unexplained 
 cause, the original order was carried out, and thus, by good 
 fortune, we obtained one of the sweetest sets of bells in 
 the world. Putting them up, frames, etc., cost about £yoo 
 currency, so that the total cost was £6%i sterling. •'' 
 
 For eighteen years they hung peacefully in their tower, 
 but when Charlestown was to be evacuated by the British 
 in December, 1782, Major Traille, of the Royal Artillery, 
 claimed them as a perquisite of his corps, and carried them 
 off on the last fleet that sailed from Charlestown December 
 14, 1782. The Vestry appealed to Sir Guy Carlton, the 
 British Commander-in-Chief, who was in New York, and he 
 ordered their restoration, but too late ; for the bells had 
 been shipped to London, and were beyond his jurisdic- 
 tion.'* 
 
 An appeal was then made "To The Honorable the Sec- 
 retary at War, White Hall, London, but elicited no re- 
 sponse.^ 
 
 A Mr. Ryhiner," a merchant, formerly of Charlestown, 
 
 iQld Vestry Book, 38. ^q. V. B., 34. -'Old Vestry Book, 43. 
 ^Vestry Book, 168. ^Old Vestry Book, 172. ''Old Vestry Book, 184. 
 
1 2 Appoidix to \ 'car Book. 
 
 bought the bells "as a commercial adventure,'"^ and shipped 
 them back to Charlestovvn in the " Lightning^' which ar- 
 rived here November 20, 1783,^ so that the bells were absent 
 only about a year. 
 
 In Johnson's Traditions, it is stated that " when landed 
 on the wharf, the overjoyed citizens took possession, and 
 hurried them up to the church and into the steeple, without 
 thinking that they might be violating a private right." Be 
 this as it may, we find Mr. Ryhiner, in June, 1785,-'^ apply- 
 ing to the Vestry for payment for them, and the 
 Vestry replying : "This Vestry having never interfered in 
 any shape in the matter, Mr. Ryhiner is perfectly at lib- 
 erty to do what he pleases with the bells ;" and in Decem- 
 ber, 1787,'* they order a subscription to pay for them, but 
 with what result we have been unable to learn. 
 
 So the bells rang every evening and for all fires, besides 
 calling the people to church on Sundays and Holy days, 
 and playing patriotic airs on the 28th of June and 4th of 
 July, till, in 1832,^ two of them were found to be cracked, 
 and one Amity Bailey undertook to mend them/' 
 
 He never carried out his agreement, however, and in 
 1838, the two cracked bells were sent to England in the ship 
 CJiicJwra, to be recast, and reached home in August, 1839, 
 the cost being $428.04.'' 
 
 Their next adventure vvas soon after the battle of Seces- 
 sionville, in June, 1862,^ when they were sent to Columbia, 
 S. C, for safe keeping, and there burned by Sherman's army 
 in February, 1865.^ 
 
 As soon as the war was over, the fragments were gathered 
 up, and in the spring of 1866, at least five of the bells were 
 shipped to Mears & Stainbank,i ^ the successors of the orig- 
 inal founders, who still carried on the business in London, 
 and recast of the same amalgam, and in moulds made 
 with the same trammels.' ' They reached Charleston on the 
 
 1 Johnson's Traditions, 402. ^ King's Newspaper Press of Chr., 36. 
 301d Vestry Book, 185. -tQld V. B'l<, 164. ^N.V. B'k, 40. 
 6N. V. Book, 63. 'N. V. Book, 70. ^'N. V. B., 137. 
 *N. V. Book, 146. I'^N. V. Book, 150. I'N. V. Book, 152. 
 
The Parish CliurcJi of St. Micliacl. t^ 
 
 Norwegian bark Gladstone, February, 1867/ when it was 
 found that an import duty of about $2,200- must be paid 
 upon them. This sum was not forthcoming, so an appeal 
 was made to the public, and was most liberally responded 
 to by the citizens of all denominations, a sacred concert at 
 Citadel Square Baptist Church yielding $361.50," so that this 
 difficulty was soon overcome, and on Thursday, March 21st, 
 1867, the old, familiar music once more floated over the 
 City, and as the bells played "* 
 
 " Home again ! Home again ! From a foreign sboic," 
 not a few eyes were full of grateful tears. 
 
 The writer, then a lad, recalls the general joy, and well 
 remembers how the sound of the bells seemed amid those 
 dark days of misrule, an augury of better times to come. 
 People ran out into the street to hear them, and everybody 
 seemed happy that afternoon. The Courier of Saturday, 
 March 23d, 1867, says : " We learn that the ringing of St. 
 Michael's chimes will commence to-morrow, and that the 
 old custom observed before the war will be resumed and 
 continued. The ringing will commence with the large bell, 
 more familiarly known as the 9 o'clock bell. This will be 
 followed by the general summons and a familiar hymn, to 
 conclude with "The Parson's General Call." 
 
 The total cost of recasting the bells and restoring them 
 to their place in the steeple, was $7,723.01, currency — gold 
 being at a premium of about 36— of which sum the City 
 Council contributed nearly $3,000.^ 
 
 It may also be of interest to add that the duty was re- 
 funded, June 8, 1878, by Act of Congress. 
 
 In old times they used to ring the bells on all occasions, 
 till at a meeting of the Vestry, September ii, 1794, it was 
 
 " Resolved, uuaiiimously. That the bells of St. Michael's 
 Church shall not in future be rung but for the usual services 
 of the Church on Sundays, prayer days, &c. ; also the warn- 
 ing evening bell, by desire of the City Council; also, in case 
 of fire, and in no other case whatsoever, excepting by per- 
 
 ^ King's Newspaper Press, 36. ^Filesof Courier. ^N. V. Book, 176. 
 '^Courier, March 22, 1867. ''•N. V. B., 176. 
 
14 Appendix to Year Iniok. 
 
 mission regularly obtained from a majority of the Vestry." ^ 
 The " evening bell " was rung, save during the war, at 
 seven and nine o'clock in winter, and at eight and ten 
 o'clock in summer, up to September 7th, 1882.- 
 
 Timrod's " Christmas " — -written during the late war — so 
 well expresses the feelings of most Charleston people for 
 the old bells, that we use part of it without apology : 
 
 " How grace this hallowed day ? 
 Shall happy bells, from yonder ancient spire, 
 Send their glad greetings to each Christmas fire. 
 
 Round which the children play ? 
 
 Alas ! for many a moon, 
 That tongueless tower hath cleaved the Sabbath air, 
 Mute as an obelisk of ice, aglare 
 
 Beneath an Arctic noon. 
 
 Shame to the foes that drown 
 Our psalms of worship with their impious drum, 
 The sweetest chimes in all the land lie dumb 
 
 In some far rustic town. 
 
 There, let us think, they keep, 
 Of the dead Yules which here beside the sea. 
 They've ushered in with old-world, English glee, 
 
 Some echoes in their sleep." 
 
 Hardly less joyful than the first ringing of the bells after 
 the war was the striking of the clock at two P. M. on 
 Wednesday September 8th,-'' just about a week after it was 
 silenced by the earthquake. For days the hands on the 
 dial had pointed to the fateful hour of 9.54, and no sound 
 had come from the dear old steeple. But at last Mr. John 
 Beesley, the sexton bravely ventured up to the clock room 
 and set the ancient time piece going, so that presently, its 
 well known sound rang out, carrying joy and renewed hope 
 to many a terror stricken heart. It seemed as if things had 
 returned to their normal condition, and that now life might 
 flow on in its accustomed channels. 
 
 This digression has carried us very far from 1764, and we 
 
 ^O. V. B., 215. -News ami Courier, September q, 1SS2. 
 '^ News and Conrier, September 9, 1SS6. 
 
TJic Parish Chnirli of St. MicJiacl. 1 5 
 
 must retrace our steps to that period, when the Vestry was 
 talking of an organ, and writing to David Deas and 
 Edgerton Leigh, Esq'rs. two of the parishioners then in 
 London for advice as to the procuring of an instrument ;i 
 which did not reach Charleston, however, till August. 1768.2 
 It was built by Snetzler^ said in a letter from the Church's 
 London agent, to be " now the most considerable and most 
 reputable organ builder in England." The cost including 
 freight and putting up was ^^568 sterling. "^ 
 
 This is the present organ, and there is a tradition that it 
 was first played at the coronation of George III in VVest- 
 minter Abbey, but there seems no foundation for this ; yet, 
 curiously enough, we find the Vestry thanking Chas. Brock- 
 ett, Esq., for " enquiring about the Coronation Organ," but 
 declining it as too costly ; and this gives a hint of how the 
 story arose. ^ 
 
 The next interesting entry in the old records is, " A Mar- 
 ble Font was also thought necessary to be got ; when it 
 was agreed that a neat one of an oval form, to stand upon a 
 mahogany frame, to run upon brass casters, and not exceed- 
 ing the price of ten guineas, should be wrote for to England 
 by the first opportunity."'' 
 
 This was done, and on Christmas Eve, 1771," the Vestry 
 received their purchase, which still stands at the right hand 
 side of the middle aisle just as you enter. 
 
 The next few years rolled quietly away, so far as the 
 church was concerned, and there is no trace in its records 
 of the Stamp Act Excitement, of 1765, the only event of 
 that year being the election of the Rev. Samuel Hart, lately 
 returned from " Mobeille," as Assistant Minister, his connec- 
 tion with the church beginning on the 2nd June, 1765,'* and 
 ending by his resignation, June 2nd, 1770." 
 
 In 1764, mention is made of a "portico originally in- 
 tended," which seems to have been designed for the north 
 side of the church, perhaps to stand over the door on Broad 
 Street, closed about 1823. 
 
 'O. V. B., 46. ^O. V. B., 77. ^Spelt also Schetzler. *0. V. B., 78. 
 "^O. V. B., 26. «0. V. B., 105. 'O. V. B., III. 80. V. B., 55. 
 ■'O. V. B., 97. 
 
1 6 Appoidix to Year Book. 
 
 In 1770, a small trouble turns up, which show that peo- 
 ple do not change very much, At a Vestry meeting on the 
 28th of May, of that year, " The Wardens informed the 
 Vestry that several young men made a practice of assem- 
 bling under the Piazza at the West Door of the Church, and 
 disturbed the congregation very much at the end of the 
 church, with walking backwards and forwards, trailing sticks 
 on the Flaggs, and talking loud during Divine Service on Sun- 
 day Forenoons, that they are frequently obliged to go out 
 and speak to them, either to go into the Church or go home, 
 which they refuse to do, and treat the Wardens with con- 
 tempt ; therefore asked the opinion of the Vestry, what 
 method they should take to prevent it in future — -who 
 thought it the best way to summons such persons before a 
 Magistrate." 
 
 On the 19th of December, of the same year, " the Rev. 
 Mr. John Bullman arrived in the ship Carolina Packet, Cap- 
 tain White, from London, Assistant Minister St. Michael's 
 Parish. "1 
 
 For the next few years the church was happy, for it had 
 no history; but soon the Revolutionary storm makes itself 
 heard in the Vestry minutes, and on August 15, 1774,^ we 
 find that body considering a sermon preached the day 
 before by the Rev. Mr. Bullman, "which had given great 
 offense and exasperated many of the inhabitants." 
 
 The objectionable sermon reminded the good people of 
 the Province of the duty of minding their own business, 
 and the following passages must have come with stinging 
 force to the ears of men wlijO were on the eve of throwing 
 off the existing form of government : 
 
 "In short, it is from this unhappy Temper that every idle 
 Projector who cannot, perhaps, govern his own household, 
 or pay the debts of his own contracting, presumes he is 
 qualified to dictate how the State should be governed, and 
 to point out the means of paying the Debt of a Nation. 
 Hence, too, it is that every silly Clown and illiterate Me- 
 
 'O. V. B., 103. -O. V. B., 130. 
 
The Parish Ch?iirh of St. Michael. 1 7 
 
 chanic will take upon him to censure the conduct of his 
 Prince or Governour, and contribute as much as in him lies 
 to create and foment those Misunderstandings which, being 
 brooded by Discontent and diffused through great Multi- 
 tudes, come at last to end in Schism in the Church and Se- 
 dition and Rebellion in the State; so great a matter doth a 
 little Fire kindle." 
 
 Mr. Bullman would not listen to the remonstrances of the 
 Vestry, and absolutely refused to change or modify his 
 words ; so a meeting of the congregation was called, and by 
 a vote of forty-two to thirty-three, disapproved of the ser- 
 mon, whereupon the Vestry informed Mr, Bullman that he 
 was " no longer to ofiiciate at St. Michael's Church," ^ 
 
 But that did not settle the matter, for at t!ie next meeting 
 the Vestry received a letter requesting Mr. Bullman's re- 
 call, and signed by seventy-four inhabitants of the Parish. 
 Whereupon, "the Vestry, considering the same, and referring 
 to the minutes of the 15th and i8th instant, are fully satis- 
 fied with the Propriety of their Conduct respecting Mr, 
 Bullman," The signers of the letter then appealed to the 
 Church Commissioners of the Province, but the revolution 
 put an end to that body before the appeal was considered. 
 
 The Vestry chosen, on Easter Monday, April i8th, 1776, 
 did not take the usual oath, but one to defend the Consti- 
 tution of South Carolina, as established by Congress on the 
 26th March, 1^76 ;2 and on the 2d July, of the same year, 
 we find it meeting to discuss the refusal of the Rev. Dr. 
 Cooper " to take the oath prescribed by His Excellency the 
 President, and by him ordered to be administered to any 
 inhabitants, by the Captains of the Militia," and after de- 
 liberating on the matter, calling a meeting of the congre- 
 gation for July 2d, at which it was decided to call a new 
 Minister. 
 
 We cannot prevent a feeling of respect and pity from steal- 
 ing over us as we think of the struggle it must have cost the 
 good Doctor to sever the ties of years and to give up a com- 
 
 ^O. V. B., 131. 20. V. Book, 140. 
 
1 8 ^ippciK^ix to Year Book. 
 
 fortable home and salary for conscience sake ; and it is pleas- 
 ant to know that the English Government settled an annuity 
 of ;^ioouponhim,and that he obtained a cure in England — 
 curiously enough, St. Michael's, Cornhill.i Much difficulty 
 was found in procuring a successor to Doctor Cooper, and 
 it was not till March 22d, 1778,- that the Rev. Charles Fred- 
 erick Moreau became Rector, no attempt being made to 
 supply Mr. Bullman's place. 
 
 At the time of the British invasion of 1776, lead was 
 scarce, and St. Michael's seems to have given some from its 
 roof, for in December, 1778, .the Vestry apply for a restora- 
 tion of the " Leads which were taken from the church for 
 the publick use."^ 
 
 In the same year a brick-wall was built on the south and 
 west sides of the church-yard-* and they are probably the 
 present ones: as to the rest of the wall I am uncertain, as the 
 eastern part of the lot was bought in this century ; a piece 
 of land, measuring forty feet front on Broad Street by one 
 hundred and fifty-five deep, being purchased, in 18 16, for 
 $7,000 ;^ and the piece back of this, forty by forty, with the 
 present Sunday-school building in 1836 for $3,600.*' On the 
 former of these lots there was a house very near to the 
 church, and so, for fear of fire the chancel window was 
 bricked up in 1788,'' and entirely forgotten, till, on St. Valen- 
 tines Day, 1865,^ a shell from the Federal batteries on Mor- 
 ris Island came right through the east end of the chancel, 
 knocking out the new brick work, and giving a rather strong 
 hint of improvement, \\hich was taken, and the window re- 
 stored, when the church was repaired after the War ol 
 Secession. Fortunately such valentines are rare. 
 
 Easter Monday, 1780, fell about the beginning of the 
 siege of the town, by the British, and there is no record of an 
 election for Vestrymen and Wardens ; and the same thing 
 occurred in 1781, so that it was not till July 2, 1781, that 
 we find an election held "by order of the Commandant,"^ 
 
 iDalcho, 205. K). V. B., 151. ^O. V. B., 154. 'O. V. B., 154. 
 5Reg. M. C. eOiiginal Deed. "O. V. B., 200. 
 *Mr. John Beesley, the Sexton. 'O. V. B., 156. 
 
The Parish Church of St. Michael. 19 
 
 which resulted in the rctuni of a Vestry entirely different 
 from its predecessor. 
 
 The new Vestry held its first meetino- July 16, 1781, and 
 were "informed that Jno. Cruden, Esq., Commissary of 
 sequestered estates generously offered to give up the use of 
 such pews as were under his directions for the benefit of 
 the church." 1 The Rev. Edward Jenkins was called to the 
 rectorship, and the church was opened on Sunday, July 29. 
 1781.- The Vestry of the next year held no meeting till 
 October, when it was certain that the British would soon 
 leave the town, and that their friends would have to reckon 
 with the victorious and exasperated whigs. The church 
 plate was valuable, and the Vestry met to consider the offer 
 of Edward Lightwood, one of the last Vestry prior to the 
 siege — to take charge of it during the disorder of the 
 evacuation. 3 This they decided to do, if the State authori- 
 ties sanctioned it, and so they sent to Gov. Mathews, at 
 Izard's Plantation, on Ashley River, and finding the plan 
 agreeable to him, turned the Communion Service and 
 Vestry Book over to Mr. Lightwood. 
 
 On the re-entry of the Americans, the Rev. Hy. Purcell,"^ 
 at one time Chaplain to the second South Carolina Regi- 
 ment, commanded by Moultrie, began to officiate, but just 
 how the Church was managed is not known, as there is no 
 record of Vestry meetings; and in March, 1783, Gov. Guerard 
 issued an order for the election of a Vestry, to take place on 
 Easter Monday, April 21st, " there being no Wardens." 
 
 Mr. Purcell continued to officiate, but was not regularly 
 elected Rector till April 2d, I784,'"' though allowed his salary 
 from the evacuation by the British, December 14th, 1782. 
 
 In May, 1785, the Church was incoporated jointly with 
 St. Philip's, and as a separate corporation in 1791 ;*' and 
 three years after was repaired, and a parapet either added 
 or rebuilt on the north and south sides. This seems to 
 have caused the building to leak, and at last the Vestry pro- 
 posed to remove it, and about 1847*^ this proposal was car- 
 ried out. 
 
 ^O. V. B., 158. ^O. V. B,i59. 30. V. B., 161. ^O. V. B., 175. 
 ^O. V. B., 175. «Dalcho, 206. ^N. V. B., 96. 
 
20 jlppci/dix to Year Bool'. 
 
 For a time after the Revolution, the Church, no longer 
 helped by the Government, was in considerable financial 
 difficulty, but gradually things improved, so that on March 
 19th, 1790,^ the Rev. Thomas Gates, D. D., was elected co- 
 Rector, and served till October 25th, 1796,- when he re- 
 siged, and the Rev. Ed. Jenkins, D. D., was chosen as Dr. 
 Purcell's colleague, an arrangement which lasted till the 
 resignation of the former, December 17th, 1804.'' 
 
 There is mention, in 1794,'* of the evening bells — abolished 
 by the City Council September 7th, 1882,^ when the Fire 
 Alarm Telegraph went into operation — and there was some 
 trouble about the St. Cecilia Band assisting at service in 
 1798,^ and at the same meeting the Sexton is directed not to 
 allow " any horses or cattle to graze in the Church yard in 
 future.'"' 
 
 Mr. Purcell died March 24, 1802,^ and the Rev. Nathaniel 
 Bowen was chosen to supply the place, entering upon his 
 duties December 19, 1802." 
 
 At a Vestry meeting, August 8, 1802, mention is made 
 of a legacy of i^20, "left by Aaron Locock, Esq., towards 
 the purchase of a chandelier," and in March, 1803, the 
 present one, with "three pair of branches, for the Pulpit, 
 Reading Desk and Organ Loft,"'i " was ordered from Joseph 
 Lewis, of London, and the bill, i^i02-i8-io Sterling, or- 
 dered to be paid in the December following, but there is no 
 mention of when it was put up.^^ 
 
 Pounds, shillings and pence are always used in the 
 church's accounts up to this time, but in July, 1803,^- a 
 change is made to dollars and cents. 
 
 Upon the resignation of Dr. Jenkins, as mentioned above, 
 an arrangement was made between St. Philip's and St. 
 Michael's to have an- Assistant in common, and the Rev. 
 Wm. Percy was elected to this position, entering upon the 
 functions of his office January, 1805.^'' This agreement 
 
 ^O. V. B., 203. 20. V. B., 222. SQ. V. B., 208. iQ. V. B., 215. 
 ^Nezas and Cou7'ier, September 9, 1882. ^O. V. B., 235. '^O. V. B., 235. 
 ^Dalcho, 220. "O. V. B.,277. lOQ. V. B., 280. ^ ^O. V. B., 294. 
 i'O. V. B., 283. i-'O. V. B., 30S. 
 
The Pa risk Chuirli of St. Micliacl. 2t 
 
 lasted till the close of 1809, when the Rev. Theodore 
 Dehon took charge of the church, 1 Mr. Bovven having ten- 
 dered his resignation in the preceding May, but officiating 
 till late in the year. 
 
 On the loth June, 1804,- the Vestry was authorized by a 
 meeting of the congregation to enlarge the Church by 
 adding forty-two pews below and twelve in the gallery, 
 to the east end of the building -.^ this plan came up again in 
 iSio,"^ and a third time in 1833,^' but expended its energy in 
 resolutions. The same fate seems to have overtaken a pro- 
 posal to cut down the pews made in 1824," and authorized 
 by the Vestry. 
 
 On the sixth of August, 1817,''' the death of Bishop 
 Dehon, who in spite of his elevation to the Episcopate, 
 February 19, 1812,'' continued to be the Rector of St. 
 Michael's, left the church without a parson, and, so, on the 
 thirteenth of August, 1817," they called Dr. Nathaniel 
 Bowen, their former pastor, and he returned to his old post 
 March i, 1818.^'' Like his immediate predecessor, he was 
 Bishop of this Diocese, that dignity having been conferred 
 upon him February i8th, 1818.' ^ As the duties of the two 
 offices soon became greater than one person could fulfil, 
 Dr. Frederick Dalcho was elected Assistant on the 23d 
 February 1819.*- 
 
 When the church was built there was a cross aisle with a 
 door at each end of it, but time having proved this aisle 
 unnecessary, and there being a great demand for space, it 
 was replaced in 18181^ by eight pews, and later the north 
 door was closed; just when we do not know, but think it 
 was in 1823,^ * as at that time a new pew is mentioned, and 
 there was no place for one except where the door had 
 been, 
 
 In May, of the same year, we find a bill paid for ornament- 
 ing the church on Whitsunday, a custom now obsolete;^ ^ and 
 that reminds us of another old usage, that of reading the 
 
 ^O. V. B., 372. ^O. V. B., 300. 3Do., 298. tDo., 377. ^O. V. B., 46. 
 
 «0. V. B., 537. "Tablet in Church. 'Dalcho, 224. »0. V. B., 456. 
 
 '"O. V. B., 465. 11 Dalcho. 211. '^Oakho. 212. 
 
 »»0. V. B., 476. i+Do., 531. 1 '•Do.. 530. 
 
22 Appendix to Year Book. 
 
 Citations of the Ordinary in the churches on Sunday, which 
 was only discontinued by an Act of the Legislature, passed 
 at the request of the people of St. Michael's in December, 
 1824.1 
 
 The clerk held on till October ist, 1835, when he, too, fol- 
 lowed the usual path of old fashions ; as did the choir of sur- 
 pliced boys, who are frequently mentioned, as when, in 
 1798, we find a bill for " washing the surplaces of clerg)' 
 and children ;"- and a little earlier, the Vestry requesting the 
 Rector to entertain, at their expense, six of the orphan boys 
 on Sunday, as "an incitement for their better performance 
 of the Service";^ and in 1807 the Organist is requested to 
 have at least twelve choir boys.'* When this form of music 
 was discontinued we do not know. 
 
 There were two other old customs in St. Michael's, now 
 given up, the preaching of a sermon on New Year's day, by 
 special direction of the will of Benjamin Smith, dated Feb- 
 ruary 15th, 1768,^ which changes Pew No. 4, in the middle 
 aisle, with the payment of £2^ currency, "to such minister as 
 shall preach a sermon every New Year's Day in said Church 
 of St. Michael ;" and the session's sermons, thus described 
 in Fraser's Reminiscences : 
 
 " Among the old customs of the Bar, now abolished, was 
 the preaching of sessions sermons, for which the Minister 
 was allowed, by law, a sum of three pounds, to be paid by 
 the Sheriff out of fines and forfeitures. The last that I re- 
 member in Charleston, was preached by the Rev. James D. 
 Simons, in St. Michael's Church. But looking over an old 
 State Gazette of January, 1799, I found the notice of a 
 session sermon preached in St. Michael's Church, by the 
 Rev. Dr. Purcell ; and this recalled to my mind an incident 
 connected with that very occasion. Mr. John Rutledge, of 
 revolutionary celebrity (who died in May, 1800), chanced to 
 meet me near the Church, whilst the Judge and Sheriff, and 
 a few officers of the court, were crossing over from the court- 
 house. Seeing this scant and motley procession, he asked 
 
 IN. V. B., 3. ^O. V. B., 232. 30. V. B., 215. -^O. V. B., 346. 
 50. V. B., 4()5. 
 
The Parish C/uirc/i of St. MicJiacl. 23 
 
 what it meant. I told him they were going to hear a ses- 
 sions sermon, when he observed how differently it had been 
 conducted formerly, when the judges, in their scarlet robes, 
 and the lawj^ers, also robed, and all the attendants of the 
 court, proceeded in great form to the church." 
 
 The idea of holding public meetings in the churches is 
 rather strange to people of the present generation, but for 
 the first seventy years of St. Michael's life, it was the favorite 
 place for that purpose, and a record of some of the most 
 important of these maybe of interest. 
 
 The S. C. Gazette, of December 31, 1765, says : " Friday 
 (December 27, Ed.), being the Feast of St. John Evan- 
 gelist, the Society of Free Masons assembled in the Morn- 
 ing, and went in Procession to St. Michael's Church, where 
 an excellent Discourse, suitable to the occasion, was deliv- 
 ered by the Rev. Mr. Hart, Assistant of said Church, the 
 members present being in Number about 160; among whom 
 were the Right Worshipful Benjamin Smith, Esq., Provin- 
 cial Grand Master ; the Hon. Egerton Leigh, Esq., Deputy 
 Grand Master, and many other Gentlemen of Distinction." 
 
 The Cincinnati, the Revolution Society and the Palmetto 
 Society used to have their annual orations there on the 
 Fourth of July, and these celebrations are so well described 
 by Mr. Eraser that we again quote him: 
 
 " St. Philip's and St. Michael's being the largest churches, 
 were generally chosen for the occasion, and were always 
 densely crowded. The clergymen who officiated respect- 
 ively had been both Revolutionary patriots and wore the 
 badge of the Cincinnati with their canonicals. It was in- 
 teresting to behold the original members of the Cincinnati 
 on those occasions, most of them dressed in their Revolu- 
 tionary uniforms. Among them were officers who had been 
 with Washington at Trenton, at Valley Forge, German- 
 town, Brandywine, at Monmouth and at Yorktovvn ; then 
 there was the gallant Moultrie, surrounded by many of the 
 officers who had been with him on the 28th of June, 1776, 
 and also Col. Washington, distinguished at Guilford, Cow- 
 pens and Eutaw. 
 
24 Appendix of Year Book. 
 
 " There amongst this honored group were to be seen those 
 gentlemen whose handwriting has bound South Carolina to 
 the compact of independence, for Governor Edward Rut- 
 ledge and Judge Heyward were both then alive." 
 
 Mr. Fraser also mentions a meeting of the citizens held 
 here in May, 1798, during the troubles with France, which 
 resulted in the building of Fort Mechanic, " which stood 
 precisely on the spot where Mr. Holmes' house on the Bat- 
 tery is now placed." Now No. 19. 
 
 Another meeting was held on the 3d of July of the same 
 year, and within a few weeks $ioo,cxx) was raised, and with 
 it the "John Adainsy a frigate of thirty-two guns, was built 
 for the navy of the United States. 
 
 Again, in 1812, the people of Charleston met in the old 
 church to consider how best to aid the Government in the 
 war just begun; and so it went on till, in 1832, the Vestry 
 decided not to allow meetings in future, and they were dis- 
 continued.^ 
 
 But there is also an amusing side to our story, as when in 
 1806- the Vestry petitioned the City Council for leave to 
 place chains across Broad and Meeting Streets during 
 divine service on Sunday, in order to get rid of the noise of 
 vehicles. Whereupon a fierce newspaper war arose, one 
 signing himself " Wickliff " attacking the petition, and the 
 Vestry replying in resolutions of some acerbity, the result 
 being that Council very wisely refused to grant the desired 
 permission. 
 
 As the Vestry desired to manage the public, so some one 
 desired to manage the Vestry, and they choosing a parson, 
 not to his liking, he swore he would pull the clergyman out 
 of the pulpit, if he attempted to preach ; and on Sunday 
 smuggled a cast-net into the church ; placing himself in the 
 front of the south gallery, near the pulpit. All went well, 
 till the parson ascended the tall pulpit and began to give 
 out the text, when the madman — for such he was — rose and 
 took a cast for his victim, meaning to entangle and drag 
 him down. Luckily, the net caught on the sounding-board, 
 
 '~^ IN. V. B., 40. ^0. V. a. .325- ^^ 
 
The Parish Cluirck of St. Michael. 25 
 
 and the lunatic was secured before he could do any harm. 
 This story we have on the best oral evidence, and Dr. Percy 
 is said to have, been the divine. This is the Dr. Percy who 
 " was the first to deliver an address on the anniversary of 
 our Independence;"! and this reminds us that the first ad- 
 ministration of the Rite of Confirmation in this State was 
 by Bishop Sra*t^s, in 18 13, at St. Michael's." 
 
 In 1835, the Rev. W. W. Spear^ was elected Assistant in 
 consequence of the feeble health of Dr. Dalcho, so that the 
 Church had three Ministers, till the death of the historian 
 of the Church in South Carolina, November 24, 1836 ;^ a loss 
 followed three years later by that of the Rector, Bishop 
 Bowen, who died August 25, 1839.^ The Assistant, Mr. 
 Spear, was chosen to succeed him, on the first of October 
 of the same year," but only continued witli the Church 
 twelve months, resigning October i, 1840;'' when the Rev. 
 Paul Trapier became Rector, and the Rev. Paul Trapier 
 Keith, Assistant — a rather strange coincidence as to names. 
 
 For six years these gentlemen served St. Michael's, but 
 on the the twenty sixth of November, 1846, ^ Mr. Trapier re- 
 signed and Mr. Keith ^ was chosen in his place. The vacant 
 place of assistant was filled by Mr. Thos.John Young, on the 
 22d, of May, 1847,^" ^'""d he held that position till his lament- 
 ed death Oct. iith, 1852, ^^ when thescholary divine, James 
 W. Miles, was chosen to succeed him, January 27, 1853. 
 Mr. Miles resigned on account of ill health the next year.^^ 
 and his place was filled by the election of Rev. James H. 
 Elliott, November 25, 1853. ^'^ 
 
 There are no other events worthy of record between that 
 time and the War of Secession, unless it be that the color of 
 the steeple was changed from white to brown, an occurrence 
 which made a great impression on the small boys, as the 
 writer can testify. The history of the church during the 
 late war is best told by the following chronicle from the pen 
 of the late venerable A. E. Miller, 1* the Almanac maker, 
 
 ^Dalcho, 238. 2Dalcho, 211. ^N. V. B., 66. -^Tablet in Church. 
 "'Tablet in Church. «N. V. B., 72. ■ N. V. B., 77. ^N. V. B., 90. 
 '^N. V. B., 92. i»xV. V. B., 92. 1 'Tablet. J^N. V. B., no. 
 i^N. V. B., 114. I'N. V. B., 136. 
 4 
 
26 Appendix to Year Book. 
 
 who died August 9, 1879, aged ninety-four years, after 
 having worshiped at St. Michael's "from time whereof the 
 memory of man runneth not to the contrary." 
 
 " Mr. A. E. Miller submitted the following chronicle of the 
 events of the siege, as affecting the church : 
 
 " On Sunday, 19th November, 1863, which had been ap- 
 pointed a Thanksgiving Day by the city authorities, the 
 service of the church was performed as appointed in the 
 Prayer Book, by the Rev. Paul Trapier Keith, Rector. The 
 Congregation was dismissed without a sermon, in conse- 
 quence of shells thrown into the city, on that day, from the 
 United States Batteries erected on Morris Island, four miles 
 off. One of them exploded at the church door as the con- 
 gregregation were leaving it. Another struck the Guard 
 House opposite, the steeple of the church being the object 
 at which the enemy aimed. The church was closed from 
 this time, and on the Sunday following many repaired to 
 St. Paul's Church, in consequence of a public invitation to 
 that effect. The Rector left the city during the week fol- 
 lowing. The Assistant Minister, Rev. James H. Elliott, 
 was absent at the time, and did not return until January, 
 when he and the Rev. Mr. Keith, who was here for a time, 
 assisted the Rev. Mr. Howe in keeping open St. Paul's 
 Church (as the Rector of it, the Rev. Dr. Hanckel, was also 
 absent,) for the benefit of those of the three congregations 
 who remained in town, and also for any who would come to 
 hear the word preached. 
 
 " On Easter Monday, 1864, the election of Vestry and 
 Wardens for this church was held there, and. what was re- 
 markable, those for St. Philip's, St. Paul's and Grace 
 Churches were held at the same time and place, but only a 
 few were present. The Vestry elected at that time 
 held but one meeting to organize and then left the 
 city. They have now all returned, with the exception of 
 Jacob K. Sass, Esq., whose death we all lament, and whose 
 memory will be ever held in esteem for his piety and be- 
 nevolence, and usefulness as one of the church's enlight- 
 ened members. 
 
The Parisli Church of Sf. Michael. 27 
 
 " The Rev. Mr. Howe officiated at St. Paul's, with others, 
 until some time in February, 1865, when he left the city in 
 consequence of his objecting to read the prayer for the 
 President of the United States. The same thing occurred 
 to the Rev. Mr. Marshall, D. D. The United States officers, 
 by request, got permission to hold service at Grace Church, 
 and the Rev. Mr. Green officiated, with others, for a time, 
 until the Rector of the church returned. The public 
 availed themselves of it, and the church was filled. 
 
 " During the bombardment of the city the church was in 
 imminent danger of being destroyed, as the steeple was 
 made a lookout station for the Confederate General, and 
 had a rope-ladder from the second balcony, which was in- 
 tended to be used to descend, in case of danger, by the 
 officers stationed there to observe the surrounding country. 
 The wonder is that it was not hit often by the shells. But 
 several struck the church, and if the organ had remained 
 in its place, it would have been destroyed ; but, through 
 the exertions and timely thoughtfulness of Mr. Alexander 
 Robertson, and some other members, it was taken down, 
 as well as the chandelier, and boxed up with many other 
 articles of church furniture, and sent away for safety. 
 
 " The church bells were removed to Columbia by the pub- 
 lic authorities, with the consent of the Vestry, some time 
 in June, 1862, after the battle of Secessionville, as also the 
 communion plate, which was very costly, as described in Dr. 
 Dalcho's History of the Church, to which several pieces 
 were added by members of the congregation. They were 
 all in the care of Mr. J. K. Sass, President of the Bank of 
 Charleston (at Columbia), but were destroyed by the United 
 States soldiers under General Sherman in the burning of 
 Columbia. On several occasions after their being sent 
 away, Mr. Alexander Robertson loaned the set of com- 
 munion plate belonging to Grace Church, Sullivan's Island, 
 which was returned to him. 
 
 " The interior of the building was very much damaged, 
 several shells having entered the roof, and one entered the 
 east end of the chancel, which tore off and knocked down 
 
28 Appendix to Year Hook. 
 
 the whole interior of the same, with the gilded tablets con- 
 taining the Ten Commandments, the Belief and the Lord's 
 Prayer, exploding at the same time, and sinking into the 
 pavement of the altar, destroying the pews and even burst- 
 ing out the panels of the pulpit and scattering to destruc- 
 tion the whole within its range. It was a schocking scene 
 of desolation. And after the building was left in this sit- 
 uation, it was plundered by thieves, by night and by day. 
 Followers of the United States Army made free with the 
 contents of it ; although informed against by the Sexton, 
 they would intrude. On one occasion, a large number of 
 visitors, from curiosity, entered and broke off from the 
 pilasters the gilded and carved ornaments, and took from 
 the front of the pulpit the initials I. H. S., which were in- 
 laid in ivory. The pulpit was the original one put up at 
 the building of the church in 1752, and preached in on the 
 1st February, 1761. 
 
 "The repairs after the cessation of the war necessary to 
 to be made were undertaken by Mr. James R. Pringle, and 
 required considerable time and labor, and by his judgment 
 and good management the church was opened on the 26th 
 November, 1865, making two years and seven days from 
 the time it was closed. The expenses of the repairs, ^ 
 should be recorded in the minutes as they will add another 
 example of his economy and useful services to the church. 
 The Rector being absent, the Chairman of the Vestry in- 
 vited the Rev. James Warley Miles to open the church, and 
 he accordingly complied, as will be seen by the correspond- 
 ence recorded." 
 
 The party of visitors who robbed the church of the I. H. S. 
 were followers of the United States army which took pos- 
 sessions of the town in February, 1865, and some years 
 after a Northern clergyman, who shall be nameless, restored 
 the lost initials with the remarkable statement that he did 
 so as there was no place for them in his church." 
 
 The first shell which struck the building entered near the 
 
 'These repairs cost about $5,000. Circular of Vestry, January 10, 1887. 
 -The present Rector. 
 
The Parish Church of St. Michael. 1^) 
 
 second window from Meeting street in the south gallery 
 and exploded in the place left vacant by the removal of the 
 organ. ^ Another buried itself in the first pew on the left as 
 you enter the middle aisle and burst, but did little harm. 
 
 The steeple was wusr struck. 
 
 Until Mr. Keith's return to the city the church seems to 
 have been kept open by the Rev. J as. W. Miles, as in 1866 
 the Vestry offered him fifty dollars for his services, which 
 he declined to receive on account of the general poverty.^ 
 How dire that poverty was is so well illustrated by the fol- 
 lowing letter from the Rector of St. Michael's that I give 
 it in full as an illustration of the times : 
 
 ' Anderson, (S. C.,) December 8, 1865. 
 
 My Dear Sir: I have received your letter informing me 
 of the inability of the Vestry to procure the means of my 
 transportation to town, and shall therefore endeavor to 
 make arrangements for going down alone. When I shall 
 be able to accomplish it I do not know. 
 
 Mr. Elliott^ came over to see me upon the receipt of 
 your letter yesterday, and we both determined, that when 
 we could, we should go down without our families. I can- 
 not leave mine until I can provide something for their 
 maintainance, though at a sacrifice of my means. As soon 
 as I can make such arrangements, / %vill reserve enough to pay 
 my way doivn. 
 
 Respectfully and truly yours, 
 
 P. TRAPIER KEITH. 
 
 Hon. E. Frost, Chairman of Vestry A 
 
 Here we have the Ministers and Vestry of a large con- 
 gregation, owning thousands of dollars worth of real and 
 personal property, unable to raise the amount necessary for 
 a journey of about two hundred miles. 
 
 On the 27th January, 1866, the Rev. J. H. Elliott, resigned,'^ 
 and after a delay to see if they could possibly retain him, 
 
 n'he Sexton. ^N. V. B., 150. ^Assistant Minister at St. Michael's. 
 ■*N. V. B., i3g. 5N. V. B., 142. 
 
30 Appoidix to J \'ar Book. 
 
 the Vestry regretfully accepted his resignation. Soon after 
 they tendered him $500, on account of the arrears of his 
 salary, but he declined to accept it in a very cordial letter 
 dated April 2, 1866.^ 
 
 After serving the church as assistant and Rector for nearly 
 twenty-eight years, the Rev. Mr. Keith died August 23. 
 1868; his incumbency being by far the largest in the 
 century and a quarter, which measures St. Michael's life. 
 
 Some little time before Mr. Keith's death, the Rev. R. S. 
 Trapier, was elected assistant, but did not enter upon the 
 duties of his ofifice till October 28, 1868, and on the 19th of 
 January, 1869, was made Rector. ^ 
 
 It only remains to tell how the terrible cyclone of 
 August 25th, 1885, blew down about three feet of the upper 
 part of the spire with the ball and vane ; tore off half the 
 slates from the roof — inflicting damage to the extent of 
 $2,000-^ — and we come to the sadest page in St. Michael's 
 history. 
 
 The Church had just been finished, the last touches being 
 given to the work during the closing days of August, when 
 the terrible earthquake of the 31st of August, 1886, shat- 
 tered the building to such an extent that people expected it 
 to fall at any moment, the Ncivs and Courier, of September 
 1st, 1886, speaking of it as the " saddest wreck of all " in the 
 city, and deploring the danger of the loss of the old Church, 
 so dear to Charlestonians. The walls were shattered in 
 many places, the steeple had sunk eight inches, and was 
 slightly out of the perpendicular, a fissure several inches 
 wide ran through the vestibule and up the middle aisle for 
 ten or fifteen feet, the portico seemed about to fall into the 
 street and the galleries into the body of the Church. The 
 vestibule, under the steeple, presented a curious appear- 
 ance, being highest in the center and sloping away to all 
 four sides, much like the top of a huge pillow. Fortunately, 
 the fears as to the safety of the Church proved groundless, 
 and in the course of a few months it will be restored to its 
 
 IN. V. B., 147. -Mr. Trapier. •Westry Books. 
 
The Parish Chinrh of St. Michael. 3 1 
 
 original condition, but at an expense of $15,000 to$2o,ooo.i 
 Beneath the chancel rest the remains of Bishops Bowen and 
 Dehon, and in the Church yard sleeps John Rutledge, some 
 time Dictator of South Carolina, and Charlest-oe Fraser, the 
 artist. Under the present vestry room, built in 1884, Gen. 
 Charles Cotesworth Pinckney is buried, and near the eastern 
 Church yard wall, Robert Y. Hayne and James L. Pettigru 
 " rest from their labors." Dr. Dalcho is commemorated by a 
 tablet on the outside of the south wall of the church, and the 
 headstone of Alexander Shirras, the founder of the Dispen- 
 sary, is close against the western wall of the churchyard, 
 while not far off are the graves of Major-General Mordecai 
 Gist, of the Maryland Line, and James Parsons, once Vice- 
 President of South Carolina. But we must not forget the tomb 
 of Mrs. Martha Grimke, who died September 22d, 1764, at 
 whose funeral St. Michael's bells were tolled for the first 
 time. 3 
 
 Like most church yards, this one has its queer epitaphs, 
 and the famous one, 
 
 " View this tomb as you pass by, 
 For as you are so once was I, 
 And as I am, so must you be ; 
 Prepare yourself to follow me, " 
 
 is on an obscure headstone, while a cross of wood tells us 
 that 
 
 " The beautiful she have faded from our track. 
 We mourn her, but we cannot bring her back. " 
 
 And over the grave of a sea Captain is the nautical stanza, 
 
 " Although I here at anchor be 
 
 With many of our fleet, 
 We must set sail one day again 
 
 Our Saviour Christ to meet." 
 
 While another tells of the mother of nine children, who 
 died, " aged seventeen years and twenty-seven days." 
 
 In the southwest corner of the plot is a curious old affair, 
 
 ^Vestry Books. 
 
 ^Memoirs of the late Charles Fraser, in possession of Dr. H. D. Fraser. 
 
32 Appendix to Year Book. 
 
 much like the headboard of a bed. It is of bhick cypress, 
 with cedar posts, and upon it is inscribed the date 1770; 
 yet, in spite of its one hundred and seventeen years of ex- 
 posure to all weathers, it is still sound, except that during 
 the late war a shell cut off one leg, which has been renewed. 
 Tradition tells us that this board was thought old at the 
 end of the last century. 
 
 The Act laying off St. Michael's Parish and providing for 
 the building of the Church, directs " That a commodious 
 pew be set up therein, for the use of the Governor or Com- 
 mander-in-Chief, and the Council for the time being ;"i this 
 was done, and up to forty years ago, the large square pew 
 on the north side of the middle aisle. No. 43, was known as 
 the Governor's Pew. Here Washington worshiped on the 
 afternoon of Sunday, May 8, 1791 : and one Sunday morn- 
 ing, seventy-one years later, a handsome officer, of middle 
 age, wearing a shabby gray uniform, was ushered by the 
 sexton into the same pew, and after service people told 
 each other that it was Gen. Robert E. Lee.- Thus, by a 
 strange coincidence, these two world-famous Virginians sat 
 in the same pew in St. Michael's. 
 
 Ilenry Clay and Daniel Webster have likewise worshiped 
 in the old Church,^ but we cannot learn that the third of the 
 great triumvirate of Senators was ever there. 
 
 The City Gazette, of May 14, 1791, says that on Saturday, 
 May 7, 1791, "The President also visited St. Michael's 
 Church, went up the steeple to the second balcony, where 
 he had a view of the city, harbor, rivers, and the adjacent 
 country, with which he was much pleased." It adds, that 
 after the afternoon service at St. Michael's, Washington 
 " dined, at a private dinner with the Hon. Major-General 
 Moultrie." 
 
 Since the earthquake the congregation of St. Michael's 
 has worshipped in the Sunday-School Room of St. John's 
 Lutheran Church — most kindly loaned for the purpose — the 
 owners for part of the time giving up their afternoon service 
 
 ^7 Stat., 81. 'Mr. John Beasley, the SextDn. 
 ''Several Memljers of Coiifrresation. 
 
The Parish Church of St. Michael. 33 
 
 to accommodate their guests ; and it gives great pleasure 
 to one of St. Michael's congregation to put on record the 
 gratitude universally felt. 
 
 It only remains for us to call attention to the blunders 
 in some verses by Aldine, called " Flow He Saved St. 
 Michael's." The church saved having been old St. Philip's, 
 burned in 1835, and the hero of the story receiving his 
 freedom from the Vestry of that Church, not from the City 
 Council, and taking the name of Will Philip Lining. ^ 
 
 Now our task is done, and if there are in it sins of omis- 
 sion or of commission, the fault is one of head, and not of 
 heart ; for though more practiced pens might have done 
 better, they could not have been moved by deeper love and 
 veneration for Old St. Michael's, 
 
 ^King's Newspaper Press, 39. 
 
34 Appendix to Year Book. 
 
 ArPENDIX TO ST. MICHAEL'S. 
 
 RECTORS AND ASSISTANT MINISTERS OF ST. MICHAEL'S, 
 
 1761-18S6. 
 
 From To 
 
 Feb'y i, 1761. Rev. Robert Cooper, Rector July 2,1776. 
 
 June 2, 1765. Rev. Samuel Hart, Assistant June 2,1770. 
 
 Dec. ig, 1770. Rev. John Bulhnan, Assistant Aug. 18, 1774. 
 
 March 27, 1778. Rev. Charles Frederick Moreau, Rector May 12, 1780. 
 
 July 29, 1781. Rev. Edward Jenkins, Rector Dec. 14, 1782. 
 
 Dec. 14, 17S2. Rev. Henry Purcell,* Rector May 24,1802. 
 
 March 19, 1790. Rev. Thomas Gates, Rectorf Oct. 25, 1796. 
 
 Oct. 30, 1796. Rev. Edward Jenkins, Rector Dec. 17, 1804. 
 
 Dec. 19, 1802. Rev. Nathaniel Bowen, Rector Aug. i, 1809. 
 
 July 19, 1809. Rev. Theodore Dehon, Rector Aug. 6, 1817. 
 
 Jan'y, 1805. Rev. William Percy, Assistant to St. Philip's 
 
 and St. Michael's Dec. 31, 1S09. 
 
 March i, 1818. Rev. Nathaniel Bowen, Rector Aug. 25, 1839. 
 
 Feb'y 23, 1819. Rev. Frederick Dalcho. Assistant Nov. 24, 1836. 
 
 Nov. 29, 1S35. Rev. W. W. Spear, Assistant .Oct. i, 1839. 
 
 Oct. I, 1839. Rev. W. W. Spear, Rector Oct. i, 1840. 
 
 Oct. I, 1S40. Rev. Paul Trapier, Rector Nov. 25, 1846. 
 
 Oct. I, 1840. Rev. Paul Trapier Keith, .Assistant .May i, 1847. 
 
 May I, 1847. Rev. Paul Trapier Keith, Rector . .Aug. 23, 1868. 
 
 June 6, 1847. Rev. Thomas John Young, Assistant Oct. ir, 1852. 
 
 Jan'y 30, 1853. I^ev. James Warley Miles, Assistant June 30, 1853. 
 
 Nov. 25, 1853. Rev. James H. Elliott, Assistant Ja"'y 27, 1866. 
 
 Oct. 28, 1868. Rev. Richard S. Trapier, Assistant J'lu'y ^9. 1869. 
 
 Jan'y ig, 1S69. Rev. Richard S. Trapier, Rector. 
 
 WARDENS AND VESTRYMEN OF ST. MICHAEL'S, 
 FROM 1759 TO 1886, BOTH DATES IN- 
 CLUSIVE. 
 
 1759. — ^ Wardens, Robert Pringle, David Deas ; Vestry 
 Benjamin Smith, Rob't Brevvton, Wm. Roper, Geo. Milli- 
 gen, Chas. Pinckney, John McQueen, David Deas. Smith 
 would not serve and Deas was Warden, so John Guerard 
 and Geo. Austin were elected. 
 
 1760. — -Same Wardens ; Vestry, Geo. Austin, John Guer- 
 ard, Jacob Motte, John Moultrie, Wm. Roper, John McCall, 
 Chas Pinckney. 
 
 1761. — ^Wardens, David Deas, John McCall; Vestry, 
 Jacob Motte, Thos. Shubrick, Rob't Pringle, Chas. Pinck- 
 ney, Wm. Burrows, Wm. Gibbes, Job Milner. 
 
 *Not regularly elected till April 2, 1784, but served as stated. 
 tFor some years St. Michael's had two Rectors. 
 
The JV/rish Cliuirli of St. AlkJiacl. 35 
 
 1762. — Wardens, Wm. Gibbes, Richard Downs ; Vestry, 
 Jacob Motte, Rob't Pringle, Fred Grimke, Wm. Roper, 
 Wm. Burrows, Eben'r Simmons, Jr., David Deas. 
 
 1763. — Wardens, Wm. Gibbes, Thos. Farr, Jr.; Vestry, 
 Jacob Motte, Fred Grimke, David Deas, John Hume, Jas. 
 Parsons, Rawlins Lowndes, Wm. Burrows. 
 
 1764. — Wardens, Wm. Bampfeild, John Dawson ; Vestry, 
 Jas. Parsons, Wm. Gibbes, Eben'r Simmons, Rawlins 
 Lowndes, Fred. Grimke, Jno. Ward, Jno. Savage. 
 
 1765. — Wardens, Wm. Bampfeild, Thos. Savage ; Vestry, 
 Jas. Parsons, Wm. Gibbes, Chas. Pinckney, Josh. Ward, 
 Walter Mansell, Ed. Lightwood, Jr., Thos. Stone, Jr. 
 
 1766. — Wardens, Thos. Savage, Thos. L't'n Smith ; Ves- 
 try, Chas. Pinckney, Wm. Bampfeild, Josh, Ward, Thos. 
 Stone, Jr., Isaac Motte, Ed. Lightwood, Jr., Jas. Parsons. 
 
 1767. — Wardens, Ed. Lightwood, Jr., Isaac Huger; 
 Vestry, John Chapman, Jas. Parsons, Thos. L. Smith, Thos. 
 Savage, Isaac Motte, Josh. Ward, Wm. Bampfeild. 
 
 1768. — Wardens, Ed. Lightwood, Jr., Josh. Ward ; Ves- 
 try, Jas. Parsons, Isaac Huger, Thos. Savage, Thos. Lough- 
 ton Smith, Isaac Motte, John Chapman, Wm. Bampfeild. 
 
 1769. — Wardens, Josh. Ward, Edmund Head; Vestry, 
 Jas. Parsons, Rob't Pringle, John Chapman, Wm. Bamp- 
 feild, Isaac Motte, Ed. Lightwood, Jr., Peter Leger. 
 
 1770. — Wardens, Edmund Head, Rob't Stott ; Vestry, 
 Jas. Parsons, Rob't Pringle, Wm. Bampfeild, Isaac Motte, 
 Ed. Lightwood, Peter Leger, Josh. Ward. 
 
 1771. — Wardens, Robt. Stott, Aaron Loocock; Vestry, 
 Jas. Parsons, Isaac Motte, Wm, Bampfeild, Ed. Lightwood, 
 Josh. Ward, Peter Leger, Thos. L. Smith. 
 
 1772. — Wardens, Geo. Abbott Hall, Andrew Lord ; Ves- 
 try, James Parsons, Isaac Motte, Wm. Bampfeild, Ed. Light- 
 wood, Josh. Ward, Peter Leger, Sir Edmund Head, Bart. 
 
 1773. — Wardens, Sam. Legare, John Baker ; Vestry, James 
 Parsons, Ed. Lightwood, Peter Leger, Sir Edmund Head, 
 Thos, Heyward, Jr., Ed. Blake, Geo. Abbott Hall. 
 
 1774-5. — Wardens, John McCall, Jr., John Brewton ; 
 Vestry, same as last except Robt. Williams Powell substi- 
 tuted for E. Lightwood. 
 
 1776. — Wardens, Jas, McCall, John Dart; Vestry, Jas. 
 Parsons, Ed. Blake, Peter Leger, Geo, Abbott Hall, Josh 
 Ward, Ed, Lightwood, Sam. Legar^. 
 
 1777. — Wardens, John Dart, EHas Horry, Jr.; Vestry, 
 Jas. Parsons, Geo. Abbott Hall, Sam, Legare, Ed, Light- 
 wood, Ed. Blake, Wm. Gibbes, John McCall, Jr. 
 
35 4-/^paidix to Year l^ook. 
 
 1778. — Wardens, Hy. Crouch, John Owen; Vestry, Wm. 
 Gibbes, Ed. Blake, Ed. Lightwood, Geo. Abbott Hall, Elias 
 Horry, Jr., John Dart, John McCall, Jr. 
 
 1779. — Wardens, John Owen, Thos. Waring; Vestry, 
 same as last, except Chas. Pinckney substituted for John 
 McCall, Jr. 
 
 1780. — No election on record. 
 
 1 78 1. — Wardens, John McCall, Jr., Ed. Legge, Jr.; 
 Vestry, Robt. Williams, Ben. Dart, Chas. Atkins, John 
 Wragg, Wm. Greenwood, George Cooke, John Glen. 
 
 1782. — -Wardens, no change; Vestry, Rob't Williams, 
 John Glen, Gideon Dupont, Jr., John Deas, Richard Wayne, 
 Archibald Brown, John Harleston. 
 
 1783. — Wardens, Daniel Hall, Philip Prioleau ; Vestry, 
 Ed. Blake, Ed. Lightwood, Josh Ward, Peter Bacot, Wm. 
 Gibbes, Sam. Legare, Geo. Abbott Hall. 
 
 1784. — ^Wardens, Jas. Simons, Thos. Roper; Vestry. Ed. 
 Blake, Wm. Gibbes, Isaac Motte, Wm. Price, John Deas, 
 Peirce Butler, Roger Smith. 
 
 1785.— Wardens, Geo. Greenland, John Glen; Vestry, 
 Thos. Bee, Wm. Price, Ed. Rutledge, Roger Smith, Isaac 
 Motte, Ed. Blake, Peirce Butler. 
 
 1786. — Wardens, Jacob Deveaux, J. Beale ; Vestry, Isaac 
 Moote, Roger Smith, Peirce Butler, Wm. Price, Ed. Blake, 
 Noble Wimberly Jones, Aaron Loocock. 
 
 1787. — -Wardens, Erasmus Audley, Rich'd Cole; Vestry, 
 Ed. Blake, Aaron Loocock, Roger Smith, Wm. Price, Jacob 
 Read, Isaac Motte, Peirce Butler. 
 
 1788. — -Wardens, Robt. Dewar, Geo. Bampfield ; Vestry, 
 Ed. Blake, Aaron Loocock, Roger Smith, Jacob Read, 
 Isaac Motte, John Dawson (only six). 
 
 1789. — Wardens, Jos. Dill, Jr., Wm. Clarkson ; Vestry, 
 same as last year, with the addition of John Julius Pringle. 
 
 j^90. — No Wardens recorded ; Vestry, Ed. Blake, Aaron 
 Loocok, John Dawson, Roger Smith, Geo. Greenland (only 
 five). 
 
 1791. — Wardens, Thos. Jervcy, Thos. Gordon ; Vestry, 
 same as last, with the addition of Thos. Waring, Sr. 
 
 1792. — Wardens, Thos. Gordon, Sam. Baker ; Vestry, Ed. 
 Blake, Aaron Loocock, Roger Smith, Geo. Greenland, Ar- 
 noldus Vanderhorst, Thos. Horry, Thos. Waring, Sr. 
 
 1793. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, John Huger, A. Van- 
 derhorst, Thos. Waring, Sr., Thos. Horry, G. Greenland, 
 Roger Smith (only six). 
 
 1794. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, same as last, with 
 the addition of Ed. Blake. 
 
11 ic Parish Church of St. Mich a d. ' 37 
 
 1795. — Wardens, Sam. Baker, Jos. Dill, Jr. ; Vestry, Geo. 
 Greenland, Roger Smith, Thos. Waring, Sr., Daniel Hall, 
 John Huger, Ed. Blake, Jas. Shoolbred, John Blake, in place 
 of Ed. Blake, who died during the year. 
 
 1796. — -Wardens, Sam. Baker, Thos. Bampfield ; Vejftry, 
 Josh. Ward, Roger Smith, Geo. Greenland, John Blake, 
 Thos. Waring, Sr., John Huger, Daniel Hall. 
 
 1797.— Wardens, David Alexander, Wm. Miller; Vestry, 
 same as last, omitting John Blake (only six.) 
 
 1798-9. — Wardens, Wm. Miller, Geo. Reid ; Vestry, Josh. 
 Ward, A. Vanderhorst, Daniel Hall, Roger Smith, Robert 
 Hazelhurst, Francis Bonneau, John Huger. 
 
 1800. — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, A. Vanderhorst, 
 John Huger, Robert Hazelhurst, Francis Bonneau, D.Alex- 
 ander, Micah Jenkins, John Dawson, Jr. 
 
 1801. — Wardens, Geo. Reid, Chas. Kershaw ; Vestry, no 
 change. 
 
 1802-3. — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, no change, except 
 J. J. Pringle, for Francis Bonneau. 
 
 1804. — Wardens, John Potter, Jas. M. Ward; Vestry, 
 J. J. Pringle, Thos. Parker, Micah Jenkins, David Alexan- 
 der, Geo. Reid, John Dawson, Jr., Rob't Hazelhurst. 
 
 1805. — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, R. Hazelhurst, D. 
 Alexander, Thos.. Parker, John Dawson, Jr., G. Reid, Thos. 
 Waring, Sr., Wm. Hasell Gibbes. 
 
 1806. — Wardens, Nathaniel Ingraham, John Robertson; 
 Vestry, no change, except Chas. Kershaw for W. H. 
 Gibbes. 
 
 1807-8. — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, John Dawson. 
 Jr., Rob't Hazelhurst, D. Alexander, Geo. Reid, Chas. Ker- 
 shaw, Theo. Gaillard, Jr., J. J. Pringle. 
 
 1809. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, R. Hazelhurst, 
 Micah Jenkins, John Dawson, Jr., Theo. Gaillard, D. Alex- 
 ander, John Potter, J. J. Pringle. 
 
 1810-11. — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, no change, ex- 
 cept Jacob Reid in place of J. J. Pringle. 
 
 1812-13. — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, no change, ex- 
 cept Rob't J. Turnbull in place of Theo. Gaillard. 
 
 1 8 14. — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, John Dawson, D. 
 Alexander, Jacob Reid, Rob't Hazelhurst, Thos. Waring, 
 Sr., Chas. Kershaw, John Potter. 
 
 1815-16. — Wardens, John Robertson, Jas. Jervey ; Ves- 
 try, no change. 
 
 1817. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, no change, except 
 Elias Horry in place of Jacob Reid. 
 
38 Appendix to Year Book. 
 
 1818. — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, Chas. Kershaw, D. 
 Alexander, R. Hazelhurst, John Potter, Elias Horry, John 
 Dawson, Rob't J. Turnbull. 
 
 1 8 19-20-2 1-22. — Wardens, John Robertson, John Bay; 
 Vestry, Chas. Kershaw, D. Alexander, Rob't Hazelhurst, 
 Rob't J. Turnbull, Dr. Wm. Reid, John S. Cogdell, 
 Micah Jenkins. 
 
 1823. — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, D. Alexander, Wm. 
 Drayton, Sam'l Prioleau, Dr. Wm. Reid, Micah Jenkins, 
 Wm. Hasell Gibbes, Dr. Ed. Brailsford. 
 
 1824-25-26. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, no change, 
 except Daniel Ravenel in place of Micah Jenkins. 
 
 1827.-— Wardens, Dr. Horatio S. Waring, John Robert- 
 son ; Vestry, D. Alexander, Dan'l Ravenel, Sam'l Prio- 
 leau, Jas. Jervey, Jas. R. Pringle, Dr. Wm. Reid, Dr. Ed. 
 Brailsford. 
 
 1828. — Wardens, Dr. H. S. Waring, Wm. Timmons; Ves- 
 try, no change, except John Robertson in place of Dan'l 
 Ravenel. 
 
 1829-30-31. — Wardens no change ; Vestry, D. Alex- 
 ander, Sam'l Prioleau, John Robertson, Jas. R. Pringle, Jas. 
 Jervey, Jas, L. Petigru, Dr. Wm. Read. 
 
 1832.^ — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, no change, except 
 Jas. H. Ladson in place of John Robertson. 
 
 1833 to 1838. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, no change, 
 except Dr. Isaac M. Campbell in place of Sam'l Prioleau. 
 
 1839.— Wardens, I^^*- H. S. Waring, A. E.Miller; Ves- 
 try, no change. 
 
 1840.— Wardens, no change ; Vestry, Dr. Wm. Read, Jas. 
 R. Pringle, Jas. Jervey, Jas. L. Petigru, Dr. I. M. Camp- 
 bell, John S. Cogdell, Jas. H. Ladson. 
 
 1841-42. — Wardens, A. E. Miller, Wm. Jervey; Vestry, 
 Dr. Wm. Read, Jas. L. Petigru, Dn I. M. Campbell, J. S. 
 Cogdell, Dr. H. S. Waring, Otis Mills, Jas. Jervey. 
 
 1843-44-45. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, J. L. Pet- 
 igru, Wm. J. Grayson, Sr., Dr. I, M. Campbell, Dr. Wm. 
 Read, Dr. H. S. Waring, Otis Mills, Jas. M. Wilson. 
 
 1846. — Wardens, A. E. Miller, only one on record; Ves- 
 try, no change, except Ed. Blake in place of Dr. William 
 Read. 
 
 1847-48-49. — Wardens, A. E. Miller, James R. Pringle; 
 Vestry, no change. 
 
 1850-51-52. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, Dr. I. M. 
 Campbell J. L. Pettigru, W. J. Gravson, James M, Wilson, 
 W. A. Hayne, Dr. H. S. Waring, H. W. Conner. 
 
. Tilt Parish CluircJi. of St. Michael. 39 
 
 1853. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, same, except J. K. 
 Sass in place of H. W. Conner. 
 
 1854. — Wardens, A. E. Milier, Charles D. Carr ; Vestry, 
 Dr. I. M. Campbell, J. L. Pettigru, Wm. J. Grayson, Wm. 
 
 B. Pringle, Dr. James P. Jervey, J. R. Pringle, Ed. Frost. 
 1855-56-57-58-59.— Wardens, A. E. Miller, Alex. Rob- 
 ertson ; Vestry, no change. 
 
 1860-61-62. — Wardens, A. E. Miller, Wm. C. Courtney; 
 Vestry, no change, except Alex. Robertson in place Wm. 
 J. Grayson. 
 
 1863. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, Ed. Frost, William 
 Bull Pringle, Dr. James P. [ervey, Alex. Robertson, Jas. 
 R. Pringle Dr. I. M. Campbell, W. J. Grayson. 
 
 1864. — ^Wardens, no change; Vestry, Ed. Frost, Wm. B. 
 Pringle, Dr. Jas. P. Jervey, Alex. Robertson, Jas. R. Pringle, 
 J. K. Sass, Thos. Frost. 
 
 1865. — No election on record. 
 
 1866.— Wardens, A. E. Miller, W. C. Courtney; Vestry, 
 Ed. Frost, Jas. R. Pringle, Alex. Robertson, Jas. M. Wil- 
 son, Thos. Frost, Wm. B. Pringle, Dr. Jas. P. Jervey. 
 
 1867-68. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, no change, ex- 
 cept Martin L. Wilkins in place of Alex. Robertson. 
 
 1869. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, no change, except 
 Richard Caldwell in place of Ed. Frost. 
 
 1870. — Wardens, no change; Vestry, same save Wm. 
 Jervey, vice Richard Caldwell. 
 
 1 87 1-2. — Wardens, no change ; Vestry, J. R. Pringle, Wm. 
 Bull Pringle, J. M. Wilson, T. Frost, M. L. Wilkins, Hy. E. 
 Young, Cleland K. Huger. 
 
 1873. — No change, except in Vestry, E. P. Jervey, vice 
 J. M. Wilson. 
 
 1874. — Wardens, W. C. Courtney, Thos. Frost; Vestry, 
 
 C. K. Huger, H. E. Young, M. L. Wilkins, E. P. Jervey, 
 John H. Scriven, G. D. Bryan, Alex. W. Marshall. 
 
 1875. — No change, except in Vestry, Dr. F. L. Parker. 
 vice J. H. Scriven. 
 
 1876. — No change, except Dr. T. L. Ogier, vice M. L. 
 Wilkins. 
 
 1877-80. — No change. 
 
 1881. — Wardens, W. C. Courtney, Thos. Frost; Vestry, 
 H. E. Young, C. K. Huger, E. P. Jervey, G. D. Bryan, A. 
 W. Marshall, Dr. T. L. Ogier, Arnoldus Vanderhorst. 
 
 1882-5. — Wardens, Thos. Frost, C. K. Huger; Vestry, 
 H. E. Youn^, E. P. Jervey, G. D. Bryan, A. W. Marshall, 
 Dr. T. L. Ogier, Arthur Lynah, Julius A. Blake. 
 
40 
 
 Appoidix to Year Book. 
 
 1886.— Wardens, C. K. Huger, A. W. Marshall; Vestry 
 H. E. Young, E. P. Jervey, G. D. Bryan, Dr. T. L. Ogier 
 J. A. Blake, Arthur Lynah, J. B. Chisolm. 
 
 THE DELIVERY OF PEWS IN ST. MICHAEL'S 
 
 CHURCH. 
 
 isi December, ij6o, Delivered by Isaac Mazyck. 
 
 No. 
 
 3 To'Ralpm Izard. 
 
 No. 65ToSam'l Prioleau. 
 Ann Air. 
 Benjamin Ma- 
 zyck. 
 Frederick 
 
 Grimke. 
 Thomas Rose. 
 Samuel Cardy. 
 Thomas Basnett. 
 Tiios. Stone, Jr. 
 John Favors. 
 
 Delivered by BeiiJ. Siiiitli. 
 
 21 To Isaac Mazyck. 
 
 2d Decc7nber, Delivered by Isaac Mazyck. 
 
 5 To Edward Fen- No. 29 To Robert Pringle. 
 J wicke (by Wm. " 32 " Luke Stonten- 
 
 GlBBS.) BURGH. 
 
 19 " William Bull. " 72 " John Hume. 
 
 Delivered by Benjamin Smith. 
 
 No. 6 To James Laurens. No. 49T0 Wm. Middleton. 
 
 4 ' 
 
 * Benj. Smith. 
 
 67 
 
 •4 ' 
 
 ' Thomas Elfe. 
 
 75 
 
 17 ' 
 
 ' Miles Brewton. 
 
 
 26 ' 
 
 ' Joseph Niciiol- " 
 
 son. 
 
 76 
 
 27 ' 
 
 ' Richard 
 
 80 
 
 
 Downes. 
 
 89 
 
 38 ' 
 
 ' Job Milner. 
 
 91 
 
 48 ' 
 
 ' John McCall. 
 
 92 
 
 52 ' 
 
 ' Sarah Baker. 
 
 97 
 
 57 ' 
 
 ' Thomas Hutch- 
 inson. 
 
 
 No. 
 
 No. 
 
 8 ' 
 
 ' Wm. Burrows. 
 
 
 (by H. Middle- 
 
 9 ' 
 
 ' Henry Peron- 
 
 
 ton.) 
 
 
 neau. 
 
 54 ' 
 
 ' Wm. Henderson 
 
 16 • 
 
 ' James Parsons. 
 
 ■ 60 ' 
 
 ' Henry Middle- 
 
 20 ' 
 
 ' Othniel Beale. 
 
 
 ton. 
 
 22 ' 
 
 ' Ann Waller. 
 
 61 ' 
 
 ' Thc'Mas Middle- 
 
 25 ' 
 
 ' Wm. Bampfield. 
 
 
 ton. 
 
 36 ' 
 
 ' John Savage. 
 
 ■ 88 ' 
 
 ' John Giles. 
 
 
 " 
 
 18 ' 
 
 ' Jacob Motte. 
 
'^^ 
 
 TJic Pan's/i CiuircJi of- St. MicJiacl. 
 
 41 
 
 Delivered by Robert Priiigle. 
 •No. 109 To John Stevenson. 
 
 8th December, Delivered by Isaac Mazyck. 
 No. 23 To Thomas Farr, No. 69 To Robert 
 Jr. 
 35 To William Bran- " 79 
 
 FORD. 
 
 39 " Sarah Johnston 
 
 (by J. McCall.) " 84 
 41 " Peter Mani- 
 
 GAULT. 
 
 47 " Eliza Aiken, (by " 12 
 
 ■ B. Smith). 
 58 " William Gibbes. " 100. 
 
 John- 
 son. 
 
 ■ John Gibbes, 
 Jr., by William 
 Gibbes. 
 
 ' Thomas Lam- 
 boLl (by Thos. 
 
 ' Lamboll, Jr.) 
 
 ' Hector B. de 
 Beaufain. 
 
 ' Thomas Linning 
 
 Hop- 
 
 By Benjamin Smith. 
 No. 13 To William StoneNo. 87 To 
 (to Wm. Hop- 
 ton). " 90 
 " 55 " Moreau Sarra- 
 ZIN (to Jona'n 
 Sarrazin). 
 
 gtJi December, by G. Manigaitlt. 
 No. 33 To Elinor AustinNo. 70 To Susanna Crock- 
 
 William 
 
 TON. 
 CORDES & PoR- 
 CHER (to P. 
 D6UXSAINT). 
 
 No. 
 
 
 (to Geo. Aus- 
 
 
 ATT. 
 
 
 tin.) 
 
 71 ' 
 
 Ebenezer Sim- 
 
 44 " 
 
 George Austin. 
 
 
 mons, Jr. 
 
 62 " 
 
 Thos. Shubrick. '' 
 
 77 ' 
 
 Humphrey Som- 
 
 64 " 
 
 Daniel Ravenel, 
 
 
 MERS. 
 
 
 Jr., and Alex. " 
 
 81 ' 
 
 William Scott. 
 
 
 Mazyck. 
 
 82 ' 
 
 Edward Light- 
 
 66. " 
 
 Sarah Hollibush 
 
 
 wood. 
 
 68. " 
 
 Thomas Tucker 
 
 
 
 
 i^th December, by 
 
 G. Manigaiilt. 
 
 71 
 
 Henry Laurens. No. 94 To William Hall 
 
 24 
 
 ' Alex. Garden. '; 
 
 98 
 
 ' Robert Hardy. 
 
 37 ' 
 
 ' William Moul- " 
 
 107 
 
 ' Daniel Blake (to 
 
 
 TRIE. 
 
 
 Wm. Blake). 
 
 45 ' 
 
 ' William Blake. " 
 
 110 
 
 ' Mary Esther 
 
 74' 
 
 ' John Paul 
 
 
 Hodgson (to 
 
 
 Grimke. 
 
 
 Wm. Hall). 
 
 85 " Stephen Mazyck 
 (to Peter Mazyck). 
 
42 
 
 Appendix to Year Book. 
 
 No. 
 
 i6th December, by Isaac Mazyck. 
 
 40 To Peter Leger. No. 78 To Daniel Horry 
 42 " John Snelling 
 
 43 
 46 
 
 59 
 73 
 
 George M'Queen " %^ 
 (to Alex. Fyffe). " 93 
 John McQueen 
 (to Alex. Fyffe). 
 Ann Matiiewes. " 95 ' 
 Eliza Pinckney 
 (to Harriet 
 Pinckney). 
 
 (to John Hume.) 
 VViLLiAM Parker. 
 Richard Park 
 Stobo (to Thomas 
 
 Stone). 
 Frederick Stro- 
 BLE (to Hannah 
 Stroble). 
 
 2Ji.th December, by G. Manigaiilt. 
 No. 51 To Samuel Wainwright. 
 
 No. 
 
 
 ^otJi December, by 
 
 G. Maniganlt. 
 
 15 
 
 To Stephen Bull, N( 
 (to 0. Beale.) 
 
 :j. 102 
 
 To 
 
 Jeremiah The- 
 
 us. 
 
 30 
 
 " George iNGLis, " 
 
 ' 103 
 
 li 
 
 HoPKiN Price. 
 
 
 (to D. Deas.) ' 
 
 104 
 
 .( 
 
 George Gard- 
 
 31 
 
 " David Deas. 
 
 
 
 ner. 
 
 53 
 
 " Thomas Farr, " 
 
 105 
 
 u 
 
 Peter Butler. 
 
 
 (toTHOS. EVANCE.) " 
 
 106 
 
 " 
 
 Leonard Bo- 
 
 56 
 
 " Bernard Beek- 
 
 
 
 selle. 
 
 
 man. 
 
 ' 108 
 
 " 
 
 Darby Pender 
 
 96 
 
 '' James Reid. 
 
 
 
 grass. 
 
 99 
 
 " Jacob Boomer. ' 
 
 ' III 
 
 " 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 01 
 
 " Thomas Night- 
 engale. 
 
 
 
 Hunt. 
 
 February 28, 1761, Delivered by G. Manigaiilt, Esq. 
 
 No. 50. To Thomas Dray- No. 63. To Thomas Lynch. 
 TON, (to Wm. 
 Drayton.) 
 
 August §th, 1761, Delivered by Isaac Mazyck. 
 No. 34 To John Drayton. No. 83 To Robert Wil- 
 liams in behalf for 
 the use of MARGA- 
 RET Hartly, now 
 Margaret Wil- 
 liams.'^ 
 
 *Nos. I, 2, 10, II and 28 not taken on List. — G. S. H. 
 
Uic Parish C/uirc/i of St. Michael. 43 
 
 INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE MURAL TABLETS. 
 
 1755-1769— JAMES O'BRIEN PARSONS. Sacred to the memory of James 
 O'Brien Parsons, eldest son of the Hon'ble James Parsons, Esq., and 
 Susanna Parsons. He was born the ist of November, 1755, and 
 died at Westminster School, 19th April, 1769, aged 13 years, 5 
 months and 19 days. His remains rest in St. Martin in the Fields, 
 London. 
 
 1760-1778— GEORGE PARSONS. Here rest the remains of George Par- 
 sons, second son of the Hon'ble James Parsons, Esq., and Susanna 
 Parsons. He was born the 13th February, 1760, and died the 23d of 
 October, 1778, a^ed 18 years, 8 months and 10 days. Thus early did 
 it please the Almightly to take to Himself these much lamented 
 youths. Leaving their Country to mourn the loss of that support, 
 and their disconsolate parents that comfort, of which their ripening 
 virtues gave the most flattering prospect. 
 
 1745-1779 — LOUIS DeSAUSSURE. Sacred to the memory of Louis 
 DeSaussure. He was a native of Beaufort District, and an Officer 
 in the 3d Regiment of the South Carolina line of troops, raised for 
 Continental Service during the War of the Revolution. Whilst lead- 
 ing on his Soldiers to the assault, made by General Lincoln on the 
 British Lines at Savannah, on the 9th day of October, 1779, he re- 
 ceived a wound from a musket shot, of which he died in a few days, 
 aged 34 years. His body was brought home to his afllicted friends 
 and interred in the Cemetery of this Church. 
 
 1777-1817— RIGHT REV, THEODORE DEHON, D. D. Sacred to the 
 Memory of the Right Rev, Theodore Dehon, D. D., late Rector of 
 this Church, and Bishop of the Diocese, who ceased to be mortal on 
 the 6th day of August, 1817, in the 41st year of his life, and the 20th 
 of his ministry. Genius, learning and eloquence added lustre to a 
 character formed by Christian principles, and a constant study of the 
 Christian's model. Meek : He was swift to hear, slow to speak, slow 
 to wrath. Humble : He esteemed others better than himself. Mer- 
 ciful : He sought out the poor and the afflicted. Devoted to God : 
 He counted his life not dear to himself, so that he might finish his 
 course with joy, and the ministry, which he had received of the Lord 
 Jesus, to testify the Gospel of the Grace of God. Zeal, fortified by Dis- 
 cretion, and Firmness by Moderation, Sanctity united with Urbanity, 
 and Goodness with Cheerfulness, rendered him the delight of his 
 friends, the admiration of his country, the glory and hope of the 
 Church. His death was considered a public calamity. The pious 
 lamented him as a primitive Bishop, the clergy as a father, and youth 
 and age lingered at his grave. He was buried under the chancel, by 
 direction of the Vestry, who also caused this monument to be erected 
 
44 Appendix to Year Book. 
 
 in testimony of their affection, and his merit. Quis desiderio sit pudor, 
 aut modus, tam chari capitis ! 
 
 Beneath the Altar of this Church rest the remains of Bishop Dehon. 
 A marble stone covers his grave, on which is the following inscrip- 
 tion : " Here rest the remains of Theodore Dehon, D. D., late 
 Rector of this Church, and Bishop of the Diocese." 
 
 i7=-i82i— Rev. EDWARD JENKINS, D. D. Qui Christo vivit perire 
 nescit. In memory of Edward Jenkins, D. D., who died in April, 
 1821, in Glamorganshire, in Wales, the place of his nativity. He 
 was educated at Jesus Collt^ge, Oxford, and having removed to this 
 country was successively Rector of the Churches of St. Bartholomew, 
 St. Michael and St. Philip. Whilst he was Rector of St. Michael's 
 his orthodox principles as a Minister of the Gospel, his abilities as a 
 preacher, his assiduity as a parochial priest, his candour, probity and 
 benevolence, his exemplary, pious and moral conduct, graced with the 
 acquirements of the scholar and polished manners of the gentleman, 
 designated him as well qualified for the dignified station of Bishop of 
 South Carolina, to which he was elected December 20, 1804, and which 
 he declined, apprehensive that his advanced age might impede the 
 punctual discharge of his duties. Bereaved by death of the issue he 
 had by his beloved wife — a native of this State — he showed a parental 
 kindness to the children and grandchildren whom she had by a 
 former husband. They, to record his worth and their gratitude, here 
 place this inadequate memorial. " The righteous shall be hadjin ever- 
 lasting remembrance." — Psalm 112, v. 6. 
 
 1 778-1847.— JOHN S. COGDELL. To the memory of John S. Cogdell, a 
 native of South Carolina, who was born on the 19th September, 1778, 
 and died on the 25th February, 1847. I'"' ^H liis relations he was a 
 man to be cherished and loved ; he united the kindest affections and 
 the deepest sensibility, the purest virtue and the strictest honor. He 
 sustained with the greatest urbanity and with spotless integrity many 
 public offices of trust and distinction ; and he illustrated and graced 
 them by an enlightened mind ; a cultivated taste and a devotion to 
 the fine arts, at once his ornament and his reward. He crowned all 
 his high and endearing qualities by the humility and faith of the 
 Christian and fell asleep in the assurance of awaking to everlasting 
 life thro' the merits of the Redeemer. 
 
 17S5-185S.— Mrs. MARIA COGDELL. Born May 19th, 1785. Died De- 
 cember 8th, 1858. 
 
 1746-1825.— CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY.— To the memory 
 of General Charles COTESWORTH PiNCKNEY, one of the founders, 
 of the American Republic. In war, he was the companion in arms 
 and the friend of Washington. In peace, he enjoyed his unchanging 
 confidence and maintained, with enlightened zeal, the principles of his 
 
The Parish CJiuirli of St. Michael. 45 
 
 administration and of the Constitution. As a statesman, he be- 
 queathed to his country the sentiment, " millions for defense, not a 
 cent for tribute." As a lawyer, his learning was various and profound, 
 his principles pure, his practice liberal. With all the accomplishments 
 of the gentleman, he combined the virtues of the patriot and the piety 
 of the Christian. His name is recorded in the history of his country, 
 inscribed on the charter of her liberties, and cherished in the affec- 
 tions of her citizens. Obeit, XVI August, MDCCCXXV. yEtatis, 
 LXXIX. 
 
 1S03-1851.— REV. THOMAS JOHN YOUNG.— Tothe memory of the Rev. 
 Thomas John Young, Assistant Minister of St. Michael's Church, 
 who was born October 22nd, 1803, and died October nth, 1852, In 
 his character were blended the affections which make the happiness 
 of domestic life, with the qualities that adorn the pastoral office, a 
 vigorous mind, carefully cultivated, a disposition earnest and firm, yet 
 full of tenderness, a pure and holy life ; he grasped the entire circle 
 of his duties, and disease, that wasted his strength for years, could not 
 weaken his devotion to them ; the goodness of God permitted him to 
 crown the instruction of his life by the lesson of his death ; strong in 
 faith, hope and love for his friends and people, he forgot nothing that 
 concerned their welfare, and ceased his care for Christ's Church on 
 earth only when called to its joys in Heaven, " where they that be 
 wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn 
 many to righteousness, as the stars forever and ever." Dan'l, 12. 3. 
 Erected to a beloved Pastor by the Vestry and congregation of St. 
 Michael's Church. 
 
 1770-1836.— REV. FREDERICK DALCHO, M. D.— This stone is erected by 
 the Vestry of St. Michael's Church in memory of the Rev. Frederick 
 Dalcho, M.D., who, having served this Church as an Assistant Minis- 
 ter for seventeen years, died on the24lhday of November, A. D. 1S36, 
 in the 67th year of his age ; and was buried near this place.* Fidelity, 
 industry and prudence were the chracteristics of his ministry. He 
 loved the Church, delighted to the last in its service, and found in 
 death the solace and support of the faith which, with an exemplary 
 constancy, he had preached. Steadfast and uniform in his own pecu- 
 liar convictions and actions as a member and minister of the Protest- 
 ant Episcopal Church, he lived and died " in perfect charity with all 
 men." 
 
 1801-1868— REV. PAUL TRAPIER KEITH. This tablet is erected by the 
 Vestry in affectionate remembrance of the Rev. Paul Trapier 
 Keith, who served God in the Sacred Ministry of His Church forty- 
 three years — first as Rector ot the Parish of Prince George, Win- 
 
 * This stone origin.'illy stood on outer south wall. 
 
46 Appendix to Year Book. 
 
 yah, next as Assissant Minister and Rector of St. Michael's, Charles- 
 ton. A man " in whom was no guile," of the sweetest natural dispo- 
 sition, of rare modesty and firm for the truth. Born in Georgetown, 
 of this State, October 26th, 1801 ; made Deacon January 6th, 1825 ; 
 ordained Priest April 2otli, 1827 ; died in Charleston, August 23d, 
 1868. " I appoint unto you a Kingdom as my Father hath appointed 
 unto me." 
 
 JULY 27TH, 1799— TO OUR MOTHER, SA15INA E. IIUGER. 
 
 1757-1S43— JOHN JULIUS PRINGLE and 
 
 1768-1S31— SUSANNA, Ills WIFE.— In memory of John Julius Pringle 
 and of Susanna, his wife, their children have raised this monument, 
 as a memorial of a father, whose life was valuable as an example of 
 great purityof character, and great talents usefully exerted ; and as a 
 tribute to a mother who was conspicuous for her virtues. Their re- 
 mains lie in the cemetery of this Church, at the base of one of the 
 pilasters, where their epitaphs are inscribed. 
 
 1770-1S46 — HENRY DEAS. Sacred to the memory of the Hon. Henry Deas, 
 who was born 20th June, 1770, and died 2d December, 1846. With 
 earnest patriotism and enlightened devotion to constitutional liberty, 
 he zealously engaged in eventful political measures, and by his wise 
 and prudent counsel, by his graceful, earnest and persuasive elo- 
 quence, and by the moral force of a pure and elevated charcter, ex- 
 erted a prominent influence in public affairs. In December, 1835, he 
 retired from the Senate of this State, over which he had presided 
 eight sessions with memorable courtesy, dignity and ability. 
 
 To the social attractions of elegance, I'efinement, wit and engaging 
 benevolence, he added fidelity in the discharge of every relative duty, 
 A husband, tender, assiduous, devoted, the affectionate friend and 
 counsellor of his children, a humane and gentle master, he excelled 
 in the domestic virtues. In life and in death, with a reasonable re- 
 ligious and holy hope, he trusted in God. 
 
 1754-1845— WILLIAM READ, M. D.— Sacred to the memory of Doctor 
 William Read, a native of Christ Church Parish, South Carolina, 
 who departed this life on 21st April, 1845, in the 92d year of his age. 
 He first served his country as a volunteer in the war of the American 
 Revolution, and afterwards as a Deputy Surgeon-General in the army, 
 under the immediate eye of General Washington. He had the high 
 satisfaction of attracting the personal regard and winning the appro- 
 bation of the Father of his Country. Asa physician he was skillful 
 and benevolent, as a citizen generous and public-spirited, and as a 
 man he lived honored and respected by all. For several years he was a 
 a member of the Vestry and a communicant of this Church, in the 
 cemetery of which his remains are buried, and at the time of his de- 
 cease he was President of the State Society of the Cincinnati. In 
 
The Parish ClutrcJi of St. Micliacl. 47 
 
 temper he was frank, manly and sincere, in deportment dignified and 
 courteous, and in all the domestic relations of life exemplary and 
 irreproachable. 
 
 This monument is consecrated by filial reverence to the memory of 
 an honored parent, 
 
 1779-1839.— RIGHT REV. NATHANIEL BOWEN, D. D.— The Right 
 Reverent Nathaniel Bowen, D. D., born in Boston 29th June, 
 1779, consecrated Bishop 8th October, 1818, died 25th August, 1839. 
 Revered in his Diocese for gravity and wisdom ; he was endeared to 
 his congregation by benevolence and piety. This Church, which was 
 edified by his pastoral care, and saw him adorn the episcopal office 
 with dignity ; now dedicates this marble to the memory of his virtues. 
 " Whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die." John 
 XI.XXVI. 
 
 On a slab in the tloor of the Chancel is inscribed : Here rest the 
 remains of the Right Reverend Nathaniel Bowen, D. D., late 
 Rector of this Church and Bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina. 
 He was born in Boston 29th June, 1779, ^"'^ departed this life 25th 
 August, 1839, '^^ ''''6 6ist year of his age. 
 
 In the Vestibule. 
 
 MARY BLACKLOCK — Iw memory of a sincere Christian and exemplary 
 parent, Mary, the beloved and devoted wife of John Freer Blacklock, 
 Esquire. She died loth June, 1850. 
 
 1819-1880— THEODORE DEIION WAGNER. In memory of Theodore 
 Dehon Wagner, merchant of Charleston, S. C, born 24th March, 
 i8ig, died 23d February, 1S80. " He delivered the poor when they 
 cried and the fatherless who had none to help them. The blessing 
 of Him that was ready to perish came upon him ; and he caused the 
 heart of the widow to sing for joy." 
 
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